DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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The Join Categorics option provides a convenient way to
stratify the dataset, based on multiple categoric variables. It is a
simple mechanism that creates a new variable from the combination of
all of the values of the two constituent variables selected in the
Rattle interface. The resulting variables are prefixed with
JOIN_
and include the names of both the constituent variables.
A simple example might be to join Gender and Marital, to give a new
variable, JOIN_Marital_Gender
.
We might also want to join a numeric variable and a categoric variable, like the typical Age and Gender stratification. To do this we first use the Binning option within Remap to categorise the Age variable (See Section 23.3.1).