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5.3 Man vs. Machine: How IBM Built a Jeopardy Champion

5.3 Man vs. Machine: How IBM Built a Jeopardy Champion

Quick Question

To predict which candidate answer is correct, we said that Watson uses logistic regression. Which of the other techniques that we have learned could be used instead? Select all that apply.

 Linear Regression  close
 CART  check
 Random Forests  check
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Explanation CART and Random Forests are both techniques that are also used for classification, and could provide confidence probabilities.

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