December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
238 pages
5h 35m
English
When using CHAID, or any algorithm, it is critical that you properly declare the level of measurement for your input variables. This includes properly declaring variables that do not belong in the analysis at all, the so-called Typeless inputs. The reason that level of measurement is so important at this stage is that CHAID will treat the different kinds of input in quite different ways. In this section, we will discuss how CHAID handles different types of input. On occasion, you may even choose to be a little creative about how you declare them. For instance, on real-world projects, it is not uncommon for analysts to take a variable that is clearly an ordinal variable, such as Income_category ...
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