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IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook

By : Keith McCormick, Abbott
Book Image

IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook

By: Keith McCormick, Abbott

Overview of this book

IBM SPSS Modeler is a data mining workbench that enables you to explore data, identify important relationships that you can leverage, and build predictive models quickly allowing your organization to base its decisions on hard data not hunches or guesswork. IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook takes you beyond the basics and shares the tips, the timesavers, and the workarounds that experts use to increase productivity and extract maximum value from data. The authors of this book are among the very best of these exponents, gurus who, in their brilliant and imaginative use of the tool, have pushed back the boundaries of applied analytics. By reading this book, you are learning from practitioners who have helped define the state of the art. Follow the industry standard data mining process, gaining new skills at each stage, from loading data to integrating results into everyday business practices. Get a handle on the most efficient ways of extracting data from your own sources, preparing it for exploration and modeling. Master the best methods for building models that will perform well in the workplace. Go beyond the basics and get the full power of your data mining workbench with this practical guide.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: " This recipe uses the cup98lrn reduced vars2.txt data set."

A block of code is set as follows:

if length(s) < 3 then '0'
elseif member(s(3),[B P F V]) and c2 /= '1' then '1'
elseif member(s(3),[C S K G J Q X Z]) and c2 /= '2' then '2'
elseif member(s(3),[D T]) and c2 /= '3' then '3'
elseif s(3) = 'L' and c2 /= '4' then '4'
elseif member(s(3),[M N]) and c2 /= '5' then '5'
elseif s(3) = 'R' and c2 /= '6' then '6'
else '' endif

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.