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MLS-C01 · Question #264

An online store is predicting future book sales by using a linear regression model that is based on past sales data. The data includes duration, a numerical feature that represents the number of days

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An online store is predicting future book sales by using a linear regression model that is based on past sales data. The data includes duration, a numerical feature that represents the number of days that a book has been listed in the online store. A data scientist performs an exploratory data analysis and discovers that the relationship between book sales and duration is skewed and non- linear. Which data transformation step should the data scientist take to improve the predictions of the model?

Options

  • AOne-hot encoding
  • BCartesian product transformation
  • CQuantile binning
  • DNormalization

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Topics

#Data Transformation#Feature Engineering#Linear Regression#Non-linear Relationships
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