Question about SAS Enterprise Miner fact sheet

[rghv]

What is the meaning of this line. It was mentioned in the SAS documentation in SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3 for Desktop

Mine the selected principal components using predictive modeling techniques.

[PaigeMiller]

Please give us the context to this statement (perhaps the entire paragraph or several paragraphs). Or better yet give us a link to the documentation where you see this.

[rghv]

Hi,

The line is mentioned n the below link.

http://www.sas.com/technologies/analytics/datamining/miner/factsheet_desktop.pdf

Its in page 6 under heading Dimension reduction.

Thanks.

[PaigeMiller]

First, this is not the documentation for Enterprise Miner, as you stated originally. It is marketing hype, it's gobbledygook, it's meaningless.

Or maybe it means you can use any predictive modeling technique available in Enterprise Miner on the principal components. Which really narrows things down, doesn't it?

[ChrisHemedinger]

That is a really old fact sheet.  Mentions support for Windows XP!

For more recent SAS Enterprise Miner info, see the Learn page for the product.

[Reeza]

This is a product feature list. 

Mine the selected principal components using predictive modeling techniques.

Likely means you can take the principal components and analyze them using other procedures - they can go into regression models or you can track them over time to see if the factors are changing. 

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@rghv wrote:

What is the meaning of this line. It was mentioned in the SAS documentation in SAS Enterprise Miner 5.3 for Desktop

Mine the selected principal components using predictive modeling techniques.

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