<ziga> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> In Analysis services data mining I found these three medthods for
> discretizing continuous attributes:automatic, cluster and equal_areas.
> In some literature I detected also methods equal_ranges and treshold but I
> couldn't find them in SQL Server 2005 SSAS DM. How is it with these two
> methods?
> Thanx,
> Ziga

"Jamie MacLennan (MS)" <jamiemac@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Those methods aren't supported in most cases. Thresholds is supported but
> deprecated so it's not in the UI but you could set it yourself in the DDL.
> Equal Areas I believe is only supported for text discretization on OLAP
> attributes and is used for grouping names, for example.
>
> --
>
> -Jamie MacLennan
> SQL Server Data Mining
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> <ziga> wrote in message
> news:b97f95c0-1fb0-4436-8725-a9552ea16108@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> Hi!
>>
>> In Analysis services data mining I found these three medthods for
>> discretizing continuous attributes:automatic, cluster and equal_areas.
>> In some literature I detected also methods equal_ranges and treshold but
>> I couldn't find them in SQL Server 2005 SSAS DM. How is it with these two
>> methods?
>> Thanx,
>> Ziga
>
>

"Raman Iyer [MS]" <ramaniy@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Equal_Areas is actually supported for text and numeric columns in both
> OLAP and Data Mining.
>
> Equal_Ranges is not available in the final release - it was available as
> an option in beta releases, which is the reason there might be mention of
> it online or in beta documentation.
>
> --
> -Raman Iyer
> SQL Server Data Mining
> [This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.]
>
> "Jamie MacLennan (MS)" <jamiemac@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:43fe3068$1@news.microsoft.com...
>> Those methods aren't supported in most cases. Thresholds is supported
>> but deprecated so it's not in the UI but you could set it yourself in the
>> DDL. Equal Areas I believe is only supported for text discretization on
>> OLAP attributes and is used for grouping names, for example.
>>
>> --
>>
>> -Jamie MacLennan
>> SQL Server Data Mining
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> <ziga> wrote in message
>> news:b97f95c0-1fb0-4436-8725-a9552ea16108@msnews.microsoft.com...
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> In Analysis services data mining I found these three medthods for
>>> discretizing continuous attributes:automatic, cluster and equal_areas.
>>> In some literature I detected also methods equal_ranges and treshold but
>>> I couldn't find them in SQL Server 2005 SSAS DM. How is it with these
>>> two methods?
>>> Thanx,
>>> Ziga
>>
>>
>
>

>
> Those methods aren't supported in most cases. Thresholds is supported but
> deprecated so it's not in the UI but you could set it yourself in the DDL.
> Equal Areas I believe is only supported for text discretization on OLAP
> attributes and is used for grouping names, for example.
>
> --
>
> -Jamie MacLennan
> SQL Server Data Mining
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> <ziga> wrote in message
> news:b97f95c0-1fb0-4436-8725-a9552ea16108@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > Hi!
> >
> > In Analysis services data mining I found these three medthods for
> > discretizing continuous attributes:automatic, cluster and equal_areas.
> > In some literature I detected also methods equal_ranges and treshold but I
> > couldn't find them in SQL Server 2005 SSAS DM. How is it with these two
> > methods?
> > Thanx,
> > Ziga
>