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Interview question

  • seniorlevel
  • 12 minsuggested time
  • 2Data scientist, ML engineer

In a gradient-boosted model of booking cancellations, SHAP says "days to departure" is the top driver and that higher price lowers cancellation. A commercial manager concludes: "Raise prices to reduce cancellations." How do you respond?

Tests: Interpreting feature attributions correctly (model explanation vs causal effect), correlation among features, and when explanations are unreliable.

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