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What is your strength and weakness?
They asked me to set up a function that created a classifier model and the tested the predictive accuracy.
What is a date and time that you would be available for a phone or Skype call?
Where do you get your ideas from? Why are you working in science today?
If you are comparing booking rate, what test would you use? What is the function to write that in R or python?
What tools are you looking to become more familiar with?
One of the last interviewers told me that Biogen Idec is very good about letting people expand their knowledge and expertise outside of their immediate research. She asked how I would take advantage of this opportunity.
How do you calculate linear regression (i.e., what function is optimized/minimized to create a linear regression model)?
You’ll have to prove you can do the job better than I did, so tell me how you’ll do that?
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