Drug Treatments (Exploratory Graphs/C5.0)

For this section, imagine that you are a medical researcher compiling data for a study. You have collected data about a set of patients, all of whom suffered from the same illness. During their course of treatment, each patient responded to one of five medications. Part of your job is to use data mining to find out which drug might be appropriate for a future patient with the same illness.

This example uses the stream named druglearn.str, which references the data file named DRUG1n. These files are available from the Demos directory of any IBM® SPSS® Modeler installation. This can be accessed from the IBM SPSS Modeler program group on the Windows Start menu. The druglearn.str file is in the streams directory.

The data fields used in the demo are:

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