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"Can I and how do I use a correlation matrix for categorical variables?"

serafinaserafina Member Posts: 1 Learner III
edited June 2019 in Help

Hello everyone,

I'm new to RapidMiner, so I apologise in advance for all the silly questions that I ask.

For a project that I am doing for uni, I have a dataset that contains both categorical and numerical variables. We are supposed to choose Predictors to predict our label "recommended" which is a binominal variable.

First of all, in addition to the >0.5 corrleation rule, can I choose my predictors based on the attribute weights in the AttributeWeight Table? How do I interpret this weight table? Why are the values contradicting with the correlation values?

Second, can I use categorical variables for my correlation matrix? If I can, how do I transform my categorical variables into dummy variables so that I can use them in the matrix? I know about the Nominal to Numerical Operator but I am not sure if that is the correct way to go because I am getting only negative correlations! (thats 14 attributes negatively correlated to Recommended) Is that normal?

 

Thanks a TON.

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  • Pavithra_RaoPavithra_Rao Employee-RapidMiner, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, Member Posts: 123 RM Data Scientist

    Hi @serafina,

     

    Could you please post the process XML file and the sample dataset here to get a better understanding of the question here?

     

    Cheers,

     

     

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