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NicolasC
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi. I was wondering whether there is a way in SAS Miner to group certain levels of ordinal variables. If one of my input variable is, for instance, "Number of Employee" and is stored as in 1-4, 5-9, 10-14 etc bins, is there a way to have Miner somehow group some of these levels, so that to have 1-9, 10-20. Even better, is there a way to have levels changed by Miner to find bins that would have better statistical significance (like 1-7, 7-18 etc...) in predicting the target (binary in this case)? For now, I do it ahead of my model in Guide but the choice of new levels is entirely based on my magic’s skill:) Many thanks. Nicolas

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

I don't know the answer.

 

I do know that almost any type of predictive modeling will work better if you use the un-binned data instead of the binned data. Just something to thing about.

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Paige Miller

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