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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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Segmentation

Segmentation (as shown in the following screenshot) is very different from Classification. With segmentation or clustering, the main idea is that you do not believe that all the cases in the dataset are similar. That is, you believe there are distinct groups of people, and these groups should be looked at separately. Often, cluster analysis is used in marketing campaigns so that not all customers receive the same ads, but instead receive the appropriate ads. In this scenario, there is no dependent variable, only independent variables that are used to segment the cases.

K-means is the oldest of the techniques and has been popular and widely available for decades. It uses the distances between cases (on scale variables only) to ...

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