MISY 5360 Midterm EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What type of analytics seeks to determine what is likely to happen in the future? - Correct Answers ✅Predictive Is Star schema considered a special case of snowflake schema? - Correct Answers ✅True Which of the following methods use Supervised Learning (Select all that apply)? - Correct Answers ✅Classification, Regression How can the data field 'ethnic group' be best described? - Correct Answers ✅Nominal data What type of analytics seeks to recognize what is going on as well as the likely forecast and make decisions to achieve the best performance possible? - Correct Answers ✅Prescriptive In data mining, do classification models help in prediction? - Correct Answers ✅True What is the extraction of information from data generated through Web page visits and transactions called? - Correct Answers ✅Web usage mining 1 / 2
MISY 5360 Midterm EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% SOLVED (Newest 2025) What is the measure of dispersion calculated by simply taking the square root of the variations? - Correct Answers ✅Standard deviation Which characteristic of data requires that the variables and data values be defined at the lowest (or as low as required) level of detail for the intended use of the data? - Correct Answers ✅Data granularity Is Ratio data a type of categorical data? - Correct Answers ✅False What is a collection of terms specific to a narrow field called?
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Is converting continuous valued numerical variables to ranges and categories referred to as discretization? - Correct Answers ✅True In the 2000s, what did the DW-driven DSSs begin to be called? - Correct Answers ✅BI systems Does data source reliability mean that data are correct and are a good match for the analytics problem? - Correct Answers ✅False