Running the Analysis

To run an Optimal Binning analysis, from the menus choose:
Transform > Optimal Binning...

Figure 1. Optimal Binning dialog box, Variables tab
Select Age in years and Years with current employer through Other debt in thousands as variables to bin.
Select Previously defaulted as the guide variable.
Click the Output tab.
Figure 2. Optimal Binning dialog box, Output tab
Select Descriptive statistics and Model entropy for variables that are binned.
Click the Save tab.
Figure 3. Optimal Binning dialog box, Save tab
Select Create variables that contain binned data values.
Enter a path and filename for the syntax file to contain the generated binning rules. In this example, we have used /bankloan_binning-rules.sps.
Click OK.