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Published inDec 2017
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ISBN-139781788291118
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Jesus Salcedo
Jesus Salcedo
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Jesus Salcedo

Jesus Salcedo has a PhD in psychometrics from Fordham University. He is an independent statistical consultant and has been using SPSS products for over 20 years. He is a former SPSS Curriculum Team Lead and Senior Education Specialist who has written numerous SPSS training courses and trained thousands of users.
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Keith McCormick
Keith McCormick
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Keith McCormick

Keith McCormick is a career long practitioner of predictive analytics and data science. He has engaged in statistical modeling, data mining, and mentoring others in the area for more than 20 years. He has a particular expertise in helping organizations perform their first predictive analytics project or build their first predictive analytics practice, and has done so in a variety of industries including healthcare, banking, telecommunications, non-profit, direct mail, pharmaceuticals, and retail. Keith is also an established author and speaker with four books in print, or under contract. Although his consulting work is not restricted to any one tool, his writing and speaking has made him particularly well known in the IBM SPSS Statistics and IBM SPSS Modeler communities.
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Help options


When using Modeler, at some point we are going to need help. Modeler provides various help options.

Help menu

The most intuitive way to get help is to use the Help menu. As seen in the following figure, the Help menu provides several options:

  • Help Topics takes you to the Help System, where you can search for various topics
  • CRISP-DM Help provides an introduction to the CRISP-DM methodology
  • Application Examples offers a variety of real-life examples of using common data mining techniques for data preparation and modeling
  • Accessibility Help informs users about keyboard alternatives to using the mouse
  • What's This changes the cursor into a question mark and provides information about any Modeler item you select

Dialog help

Perhaps the most useful help option is to use context sensitive help, which is available in whatever dialog box you are currently working on. For example, let's say that you are using the Var. File node and you either did not know how to use this node or you were unfamiliar...

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Authors (2)

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Jesus Salcedo

Jesus Salcedo has a PhD in psychometrics from Fordham University. He is an independent statistical consultant and has been using SPSS products for over 20 years. He is a former SPSS Curriculum Team Lead and Senior Education Specialist who has written numerous SPSS training courses and trained thousands of users.
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Keith McCormick

Keith McCormick is a career long practitioner of predictive analytics and data science. He has engaged in statistical modeling, data mining, and mentoring others in the area for more than 20 years. He has a particular expertise in helping organizations perform their first predictive analytics project or build their first predictive analytics practice, and has done so in a variety of industries including healthcare, banking, telecommunications, non-profit, direct mail, pharmaceuticals, and retail. Keith is also an established author and speaker with four books in print, or under contract. Although his consulting work is not restricted to any one tool, his writing and speaking has made him particularly well known in the IBM SPSS Statistics and IBM SPSS Modeler communities.
Read more about Keith McCormick