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Chapter 7

Figure 7-4

Filler node replacing system-missing values with 0

For more information, see the topic Functions Handling Blanks and Null Values in Chapter 8

on p. 156.

Working with Numbers

Numerou

s standard operations on numeric values are ava ilable in IBM® SPSS® Modeler, such as:

 Calculating the sine of the speciﬁed angle —sin(NUM)

 Calcul

ating the natural log of numeric ﬁelds—log(NUM)

 Calculating the sum of two numbers—NUM1 + NUM2

For more

informa tion, see the topic Numeric Functions in C hapter 8 on p. 138.

Working with Times and Dates

Time and date f ormats m ay vary depending on your da ta source and locale. The forma ts of date

and time are speciﬁc to each stream and are set in the stream properties dialog box. The following

examples are commonly use d functions for working with date/time ﬁelds.