https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Academy-for-Data-Science/Use-of-nominal-and-ordinal-inputs-in-GANN/m-p/654238#M880 <P>Re: Neural Network Modelling</P> <P>Based on statement at the bottom of page 4-56 of the course text, nominal and ordinal inputs cannot be assessed by using partial residual plots when building a GANN (generalised additive neural network): can they be used in a GANN at all? And, would that include binary inputs too?</P> Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:30:04 GMT pvareschi 2020-06-08T07:30:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Academy-for-Data-Science/Use-of-nominal-and-ordinal-inputs-in-GANN/m-p/654238#M880 <P>Re: Neural Network Modelling</P> <P>Based on statement at the bottom of page 4-56 of the course text, nominal and ordinal inputs cannot be assessed by using partial residual plots when building a GANN (generalised additive neural network): can they be used in a GANN at all? And, would that include binary inputs too?</P> Mon, 08 Jun 2020 07:30:04 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Academy-for-Data-Science/Use-of-nominal-and-ordinal-inputs-in-GANN/m-p/654238#M880 pvareschi 2020-06-08T07:30:04Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Academy-for-Data-Science/Use-of-nominal-and-ordinal-inputs-in-GANN/m-p/695953#M976 GANN is just like other neural network except that there's a direct connection between input and output (some people call it skipped layer neural network). So nominal and ordinal be encoded into numerical values and used just like in other neural networks. <BR />that would include binary inputs too Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:10:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Academy-for-Data-Science/Use-of-nominal-and-ordinal-inputs-in-GANN/m-p/695953#M976 zhongxiuliu 2020-11-02T14:10:52Z