1: Introduction to predicting continuous targets
- List three modeling objectives
- List two business questions that involve predicting continuous targets
- Explain the concept of field measurement level and its implications for selecting a modeling technique
- List three types of models to predict continuous targets
- Determine the classification model to use
2: Building decision trees interactively
- Explain how CHAID grows a tree
- Explain how CR Tree grows a tree
- Build CHAID and CR Tree models interactively
- Evaluate models for continuous targets
- Use the model nugget to score records
3: Building your tree directly
- Explain the difference between CHAID and Exhaustive CHAID
- Explain boosting and bagging
- Identify how CR Tree prunes decision trees
- List two differences between CHAID and CR Tree
4: Using traditional statistical models
- Explain key concepts for Linear
- Customize options in the Linear node
- Explain key concepts for Cox
- Customize options in the Cox node
5: Using machine learning models
- Explain key concepts for Neural Net
- Customize one option in the Neural Net node