Creating the Stream

  1. Create a new stream and add a Statistics File source node pointing to catalog_seasfac.sav.
    Figure 1. Forecasting catalog sales
    Forecasting catalog sales
  2. Open the IBM® SPSS® Statistics File source node and select the Types tab.
  3. Click Read Values, then OK.
  4. Click the Role column for the men field and set the role to Target.
    Figure 2. Specifying the target field
    Specifying the target field
  5. Set the role for all the other fields to None, and click OK.
  6. Attach a Time Plot graph node to the IBM SPSS Statistics File source node.
  7. Open the Time Plot node and, on the Plot tab, add men to the Series list.
  8. Set the X axis label to Custom, and select date.
  9. Clear the Normalize check box.
    Figure 3. Plotting the time series
    Plotting the time series
  10. Click Run.

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