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New Features

New and Changed Features in IBM SPSS Modeler 15

From this release onwards , IBM® SP SS® Modeler has the following editions.

 IBM® SPSS® Modeler Professional is the new name for the existing SPSS Modeler product.

 IBM® SPSS® Modeler Premium is a separately-licensed product that provides additional

features to those supplied by SPSS Modeler Professional.

The new features for these editions ar e d escribed in the following sections.

New features in IBM SPSS Modeler Professional

The IBM® SPSS® Modeler Profess ional edition adds the following features in this releas e.

GLMM modeling node. Generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) extend the linear model so

that: the target is line arly related to the factors and covariates via a speciﬁed link function; the

target can have a non-normal distribution; and the observations can be correlated. Generalized

linear mixed models cover a wide variety of models, from simple linear regression to complex

multilevel mode ls for non-normal longitudina l data. For more information, see the topic New

Nodes in This R elease on p. 10.

Support for maps in the Graphboard node. T he Graphboard node now includes support for a large

number of map types. These inc lude choropleths (wh ere regions can be given different colors

or patterns to indicate different values) and point overlay maps (where geospatial points are

overlaid on the map).

IBM® SPSS® Modeler s hips with sev eral map ﬁles, but you can use the Map Conversion Utility

to c onvert your existing map shapeﬁles for use with the G r aphboa r d Template Chooser.

Netezza Time Series and Generalized Linear nodes. Two new nodes are available for IBM®

Netezza® Analytics in-database mining: Time Se r ies and Generalized Linear. For more

informa tion, see the topic New Nodes in This Release on p. 10.

Netezza nodes enabled through Helper Applications. The Netezza Analytics database modeling

nodes are n ow enabled in the same way as the other database modeling nodes.

Zooming in and out on the stream view. It is now possible to scale the entire stream view up or down

from the standard size . Thi s feature is particularly us eful for gaining an overall view of a complex

stream, or for minimizin g the numb er of pages needed to print a stre am. For more informati on ,

see the topic Changing the icon size for a stream in Chapter 3 on p. 24 .