simClassify+ Data Type Specifications
Data Type Specifications tell the model what form the data from each column is in so it knows how to properly compare values.
Like simClassify, simClassify+ accepts the following Data Types:
| ID | A mandatory field which uniquely identifies each object. |
| CLASS | A mandatory field which specifies the field to be classified. |
| REAL | Numerical values. |
| NOMINAL | Values that do not bear a quantitative relationship with each other (i.e., strings and numbers which represent non-numerical information). |
| MULTI_PLAIN | Multiple NOMINAL values separated by spaces. Non-language specific. |
| MULTI_ENGLISH | Multiple NOMINAL values separated by spaces. The text is English language. |
| MULTI_SPANISH | Multiple NOMINAL values separated by spaces. The text is Spanish language. |
| MULTI_JAPANESE | Multiple NOMINAL values separated by spaces. The text is Japanese language. |
| ITEM_SET | A series of values with weights. (Formatted as item1:weight1;item2:weight2;item3:weight3) |
| IGNORE | The column shall be ignored by the program. |
| NULL_INDICATOR | This column type identifies the presence or absence of non-numerical data, assigning different weights to any cell with data versus those without data. |