How Do I Know Which Technique To Use?

With such a wide variety of techniques at your disposal, it can be difficult to know where to start to solve your particular problem. Fortunately, IBM® SPSS® Modeler can make some of these decisions for you, in the form of automated modeling. This is a very powerful technique that estimates and compares a number of different modeling methods, ranking them in order of effectiveness. In this way you can try out a variety of approaches in a single modeling run.

As you become more familiar with the various techniques, you will learn which algorithms, and which options within those algorithms, are the most suitable for your particular problems.