I just completed a take home assessment as part of the interview process for a company. I was told I didn't pass because my answer lacked proper training and test sets The data set consisted of a mix of categorical and numerical predictors, with the dependent variable being a numerical variable. I then removed all rows with NA values and generated boxplots for each predictor. For one variable, I replaced all of its outliers with the median. For some other variables that indicated percentage values, I did not remove the outliers because they did not seem like obvious outliers (for example, the boxplot showed that values greater than .1 were outliers, but all of those outliers still ranged from 0 to 1 so I didn't think they were typos) I then ran a Lasso linear regression model.