Predictive Modeling with SAS Enterprise Miner, 2nd Edition

Chapter 3: Variable Selection and Transformation of Variables

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Variable Selection

3.2.1 Continuous Target with Numeric Interval-scaled Inputs (Case 1)

3.2.2 Continuous Target with Nominal-Categorical Inputs (Case 2)

3.2.3 Binary Target with Numeric Interval-scaled Inputs (Case 3)

3.2.4 Binary Target with Nominal-scaled Categorical Inputs (Case 4)

3.3 Variable Selection Using the Variable Clustering Node

3.3.1 Selection of the Best Variable from Each Cluster

3.3.2 Selecting the Cluster Components

3.4 Variable Selection Using the Decision Tree Node

3.5 Transformation of Variables

3.5.1 Transform Variables Node

3.5.2 Transformation before Variable Selection

3.5.3 Transformation after Variable Selection

3.5.4 Passing More Than ...