Trekking Blindly into Terabytes of Data to Sniff Out Meaningless

question 116

Multiple Choice

Trekking blindly into terabytes of data to sniff out meaningless relationships that occur just by accident is called ________.

• A)data mining
• B)data drudging
• C)data modeling
• D)normalizing

---

Definitions:

Explanatory Variables

Variables in a statistical model that are used to explain changes or variations in a response variable.

Regression Model

A statistical technique used to model and analyze the relationships between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

Pairwise Relationship

The type of analysis or comparison made between pairs of objects, observations, or data points to assess their significance or relation.

Scatterplots

Graphical representations where two variables are plotted along two axes, revealing any relationships or patterns between them.