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Statistician Interview Questions
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Given a dataset description and a question, how would you go about creating a model to answer the question.
The data analysis parts are interesting: one is about predicting sales given historical data; one is about the effect of weather on sales.
Introduce yourself. PhD thesis and internship experience.
Why are you here?
They asked me about a specific problem they were currently facing with missing data. They provided relevant details and asked how I would go about solving their issue. This line of questioning seemed pretty typical.
tech data scientist questions
Something about maximum likelihood, but quite specific.
Explain confounding variables. How would you calculate P-value by hand? What is p-value, and how would you characterize its pros and cons? How can we increase power in a study? Calculate sensitivity for a test/small sample. Find confidence interval of a classifier that has 99.5% accuracy. How would you test if a single die was loaded on one side? Subsequently, how would you test this with 90% power? How do you write an SAP? You are posed with a question: "What are the chances a retired person who makes >100k has a kid who makes >100k?". How would you go about solving this question? Given a list of numbers, write a function that returns a list in which each element is a tuple of the data point and its empirical cdf value. Given the name of the predictor variables, outcome variable, and name of the dataset, provide the code to perform a logistic regression. Write a function that accepts any integer and returns the sum of all the digits in the number.
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