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IBM SPSS Modeler Essentials
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IBM SPSS Modeler Essentials

by Keith McCormick, Jesus Salcedo
December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
238 pages
5h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Numeric targets

Many of the same algorithms that we've seen so far can also be used for numeric targets, where you are trying to predict something like a dollar amount or another continuous value. There is an easy way to keep track of which algorithms are used for categorical targets only, numeric targets only, or both. If you look at the Expert tab in an Auto node like the Auto Numeric node you can see a list of the algorithms that can be used to make the kind of prediction shown in the following screenshot. We will discuss all three Auto nodes in more detail in the next section:

Numeric classifiers in the Auto Numeric node

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ISBN: 9781788291118