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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
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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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Relationships between categorical fields


The most common technique for describing categorical data is to create a summary table or graph indicating the number and percentage of cases falling into each category of a variable. In this section, we will discuss two nodes, the Distribution and Matrix nodes, that allow us to investigate the distribution of and relationships between categorical variables.

Distribution node

The Distribution node allows you to visually assess the distribution of a categorical field so that you can see the frequency and percentage of each category. This node also allows you to see the relationship between two categorical fields. Let's go through an example of how to use the Distribution node:

  1. Open the Relationship stream.
  2. Place a Distribution node from the Graphs palette onto the canvas.
  3. Connect the Type node to the Distribution node.
  4. Edit the Distribution node.

To see the distribution of a categorical field, place a field in the Field drop-down list:

  1. Click the Field drop...
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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.
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