How do I update the category labels for a categorical variable? Highlight the variable in the Names window and press the Toggle Categorical button at the top of the window twice. This switches the ...
The focus of this tutorial is on “associations” between two categorical variables. The scenario we will examine is the following: Are managerial status and gender at the bank related? Naturally, we ...
A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...
Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items together so ...
Dealing with categorical data is an essential part of data preprocessing in many machine learning tasks. Fortunately, encoding categorical data efficiently helps enhance the performance of machine ...
The CLASS statement names variables to be analyzed as categorical variables. For categorical variables, PROC SURVEYMEANS estimates the proportion in each category or level, instead of the overall mean ...
Data analysis is a fundamental process in any project. However, data can be lumped into different types, with categorical and continuous data seeming almost opposed at first glance. That said, ...
In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...