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Linear Models Suppose you want to learn a function that predicts the season batting average of a baseball player, given the information available at the start of the season. (This is a simplified version of the premise of the movie Moneyball.)   (a) Explain how you would formalize this as a learning problem.  (b) Is it reasonable to model this relationship using a linear model? Why or why not?  (c) What machine learning techniques would you use? (d) Give a short explanation of how you might learn the model using an iterative algorithm

Given a statementLion friendlyLion=new Lion(5,”yellow”,35); What is frienlyLion here?

The scanner class has a series of methods that checks to see if there is any more well-formed input of the appropriate type. These methods are called __________ methods:

The method __________ from the File class forces a physical write to the file of any data that is buffered.

True or False: It is considered good programming practice to validate a value passed to a mutator method before setting the instance variable.

When you want the parameters in a method to be the same as the instance variables you can use the _____ keyword inside the method.

The class ObjectOutputStream contains all of the following methods except:

Static variables are often used:

The execution of a throw statement is referred to as:

In Java, call-by-value is only used with: