How to avoid optimal binning of numerical variables while using the transform variables node in Sas

[Shradha1]

I am using SAS Enterprise Miner to fit a logistic regression model.

after the Impute node, I am using the transform Variables node with the following instructions:

Interval Inputs= Best

Class Inputs= Dummy Indicators.

After this step, all of my continuous numeric variables are getting transformed into nominal variables being divided into 4 bins for different range of values of the variable. How do I avoid this optimal binning of Numeric variables, so that they remain numeric and do not get transformed to Nominal, whereas for Class variables, dummies are created.

Thank you.

[MikeStockstill]

Hello Shradha1 -

For this data, instead of selecting Best as the default Interval Input method, try one of the other methods.  Some transformations create nominal variables (example: Optimal Binning), whereas others create interval variables (example: Log).  You can select Multiple if you want to see what the result will be for each transformation, and then you can decide what you want on a per-variable basis.

Have a great day.