<model name>_COLUMNS table

This table contains all columns that are used by the data mining algorithm.

Thus, you can see which columns are required for model application.

The table might contain columns from the original user input table and columns that are internally created by the auto-transform option. For model application, only the original columns are required because the transformed values are determined by the scoring algorithm. Parameter values for the transformations, such as the mean value of a column, are contained in <model name>_COLUMN_STATISTICS. For some mining functions, only a subset of the usage types is possible.

The table contains one line for each model column.

The following table shows the table columns:

Table 1. Columns of the <model name>_COLUMNS table
Column name Data type Description
COLUMNNAME (primary key column) VARCHAR(128) Name of an input column
DATATYPE VARCHAR(64) SQL data type of the column
OPTYPE VARCHAR(16) Operational type of the column

Possible values are categorical and continuous.

USAGETYPE VARCHAR(16) Usage type active
COLUMNWEIGHT DOUBLE A priori factor of contribution to the model training process relative to other columns

The default value is 1.0.

COMPAREFUNCTION VARCHAR(16) Function to compare a pair of column values

Possible values are absDiff and equal.

IMPORTANCE DOUBLE Indicates the importance of the column for the data mining model as determined by the algorithm

The value is > 0.

OUTLIERTREATMENT VARCHAR(16) Outlier treatment

The value is asIs.

LOWERLIMIT DOUBLE Lower limit of valid values in a numeric field

Null indicates negative infinity.

UPPERLIMIT DOUBLE Upper limit of valid values in a numeric field

Null indicates positive infinity.

CLOSURE VARCHAR(12) Indicates whether the outlier limits are contained in the valid value range

Possible values are openClosed, openOpen, closedOpen, and closedClosed.

STATISTICSTYPE VARCHAR(16) Indicates which type of statistics are available for the column

Possible values are as follows:

discrete
Statistics available from <model name>_DISCRETE_STATISTICS.
numeric
Statistics available from <model name>_NUMERIC_STATISTICS.
column
Statistics available from <model name>_COLUMNS.
null
No statistics available.