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 ==Topic for your question==
-If your last name begins with these letters: Your topic should be drawn from this book chapter
+The topic for your question depends on the first letter of your last name:
 * S (except Sa): Types of learning problems: Regression versus Classification.

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 If your last name begins with these letters: Your topic should be drawn from this book chapter
-* S (except Sa): Types of learning problems: Regression versus Classification
+* S (except Sa): Types of learning problems: Regression versus Classification.
 * L:  Supervised versus Unsupervised.
-* C,X,M,V: Compare properties of kNN versus, decision trees, linear regression (training cost, query cost, prediction accuracy)
+* C,X,M,V: Compare properties of kNN versus, decision trees, and linear regression (training cost, query cost, prediction accuracy).
-* W,F,K,N: Compare different methods of building a decision tree
+* W,F,K,N: Compare different methods of building a decision tree.
-* D,E,I: Parameterized models versus instance-based models
+* D,E,I: Parameterized models versus instance-based models.
-* G, P, H,J,O: Overfitting
+* G, P, H,J,O: Overfitting.
 * B,T,Sa: Measuring the quality of predictions: RMSE, correlation, other?
-* A,Y,Q: Bagging
+* A,Y,Q: Bagging.
-* Z,R : Boosting
+* Z,R : Boosting.
 ==Disclaimer==

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 ==Rubric==
-This rubric is still under revision...
+The question will be scored from 0 to 100%. 20% will be deducted for each criteria not met.
 For the question:

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 ==What to turn in==
-* Submit your question via survey monkey (link above).
+* Submit your response as text only via survey monkey [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8XBB9S8].
 ==Sharing and discussing questions==

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	==Rubric==		==Rubric==
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	The question will be scored from 0 to 100%. 10% will be deducted for each criteria not met.		The question will be scored from 0 to 100%. 10% will be deducted for each criteria not met.

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-==Overview: Finance Question==
+==Overview: Machine Learning Question==
-The purpose of this assignment is to help you study for the midterm by involving you in the creation of the midterm.  The TAs and the instructors will select the best 70 or so questions for the actual exam.  If your question is selected you will get full credit for this homework.
+The purpose of this assignment is to help you study for the midterm by involving you in the creation of the midterm.  The TAs and the instructors will select the best questions from this pool to be added to the actual exam.  Overall, the exam is expected to consist of 10 Python questions, 25 ML questions, and 25 Finance questions.
 ==Task==
-You are to create a multiple choice question regarding the Finance part of the course for the midterm.  You should provide:
+You are to create a multiple choice question regarding the ML content of the course up to and including MC3-Project-1 for the midterm.  You should provide:
 * The question itself.
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 * Short, complete, explanation for the correct answer.
-Your 4 answers should include one unambiguously correct response and at least one other attractive answer that might be selected if the student is not well informed. The intent is that these questions should be easy if the student has been following along in the class and hard if they have not. I do NOT want these to be trick questions, or questions that require encyclopedic knowledge.
+Your 4 answers should include one unambiguously correct response and at least one other attractive answer that might be selected if the test taker is not well informed. The intent is that these questions should be easy if the student has been following along in the class and hard if they have not. I do NOT want these to be trick questions, or questions that require encyclopedic knowledge.
-Submit your response as text only <tt>question.txt</tt>.  We do not want PDFs, image files or word documents.
+Submit your response as text only via survey monkey [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8XBB9S8].  We do not want PDFs, image files or word documents.
 ==Topic for your question==

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	Correct answer is d) because Sharpe Ratio = sqrt(sampling_frequency) * mean(daily_returns - rfr) / stdev(daily_returns)		Correct answer is d) because Sharpe Ratio = sqrt(sampling_frequency) * mean(daily_returns - rfr) / stdev(daily_returns)
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		+	==Legacy==
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		+	[[MC2-Homework-1-Legacy]]