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Data Science & Analytics Graduate Program Prerequisite Self-Assessment

This document contains a prerequisite self-assessment for a data science and analytics graduate program. It covers 4 topics: [1] probability and statistics, [2] calculus, [3] linear algebra, and [4] programming and problem solving. For each topic, it lists 5 problems assessing concepts like random processes, limits, implicit differentiation, matrix operations, and writing functions to analyze data and compute sums of primes.

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Data Science & Analytics Graduate Program Prerequisite Self-Assessment

This document contains a prerequisite self-assessment for a data science and analytics graduate program. It covers 4 topics: [1] probability and statistics, [2] calculus, [3] linear algebra, and [4] programming and problem solving. For each topic, it lists 5 problems assessing concepts like random processes, limits, implicit differentiation, matrix operations, and writing functions to analyze data and compute sums of primes.

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Data Science & Analytics

Graduate Program
Prerequisite Self-Assessment

1 Probability and Statistics


1. A random process produces one of three outcomes: S = {o1 , o2 , o3 }. o1 is
twice as likely as o2 , and o2 is three times more likely than o3 . Compute
P (o1 ), P (o2 ) and P (o3 ).
2. A lottery consists of picking four balls from a container that consists of
25 balls, with numbers #1, #2, · · · , #25. You are charged $2 to buy a
lottery ticket, thereafter you pick four numbers that you believe will be
the four winning numbers - the combination appearing on the winning
ticket. If you match 2 of the four numbers, you win your money back; if
you match three of the four numbers, you win $100; and if you match all
four numbers you win $1000. Would you play this lottery?
3. A presumed to be fair die is tossed 20 times in succession, each time the
number of dots appearing on the top-side of the die is observed. At the
conclusion, the number of times a six was observed was seven. Do you
think the die is biased towards a six?
4. A local evening news broadcast reported the results of its daily online poll:
1173 of 1901 persons, or 61.7% were concerned about proposed provincial
government cuts to health care. Does this suggest that about 61% of all
residents within the broadcast area are concerned about proposed provin-
cial government cuts to health care?
5. Monthly real estate sales of single-family detached homes were recently
reported. The average selling price was $487,576 and the median selling
price was $455,252. Which of this figures represents the typical selling
price of a single-family detached home?

2 Calculus
1. Compute the following limit (or explain it does not exist).
√
x−1
lim
x→1 x − 1

1
x≥

 3x + 5 if 0

2. For what value of k is f (x) = continuous at
 x+k

if x < 0
x−2
x = 0?

 
2 1
3. Compute the derivative of f (x) = x sin .
x

4. Consider the equation y 5 + x2 y 3 − x4 y − 1 = 0, where y is a differentiable


function of x. Use implicit differentiation to compute y 0 .

x
5. Sketch the graph of f (x) = . Identify any asymptotes, critical
x2 + 9
points, singular points, local extrema, inflection points, intervals of in-
crease/decrease, and intervals of concave up/ concave down.

3 Linear Algebra
1. With full explanation, find the general solution in parametric form of the
following system of linear equations.

x +y −z +2w = 2
2x +2y −z +3w = −1

2. Let  
1 0 −3 −2 0
 0 1 2 −1 0 
A=
 0 0
.
0 0 1 
0 0 0 0 0

What is the rank of A?


3. Find (if possible)all values of a such that
−1
the vector V = 2 is a linear combinations of the vectors A =
   − 2
a
1 −2
and B = .
−2 4
 
1 0 p
4. Let A =  0 1 −3 , where p and r are real numbers. Find det A in
r 0 1
terms of p and r.

2
 
1 0 0
5. Consider the matrix A =  0 3 −2 .
0 2 −1

(a) Find the characteristic polynomial of A.


(b) Find the eigenvalues of A and their multiplicities.

4 Programming and Problem Solving


1. You are given a list L := [l1 , l2 , . . . , ln ] consisting of n integers. Using a
programming language of your choice, write functions that compute:
(a) The mean of the list.
(b) The maximum integer in the list.
p
(c) The norm of the list which is defined as kLk := l12 + l22 + · · · + ln2 .
2. The sum of all primes below 10 is 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17. Using a programming
language of your choice, write a program to determine the sum of all primes
below 1000.
3. For what values n will the following algorithm return true.

Pre-condition: n ≥ 1
i ← n;
while i 6= 1 do
if i is divisible by 2 then
i ← i/2;
else
return false;
end
end
return true;

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