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Figure 5-15
Settinggen eral options for a stream
Decimalsymbol. Select either a comma (,) or a period (.) as a decimal separator.
Groupingsymbol. Fornumber display formats, select the symbol used to gro upv alues (for example,
the comma in 3,000.00). Options include none, period, comma, space, and locale-defined (in
which case the default for the current locale is used).
Encoding. Specify the stream default method for text encoding. (Note: Applies to Var. File
source node and Flat File export node only. No other nodes use this setting; most dat a files have
embedded encoding information.) You can choose either the system defa ult or UTF-8. The
system default is specified in the Windows Control Panel or, if running in distributed mode, on the
server computer. For more information, see the topic Unicode Support i n IBM SPSS Modeler
in Appendix B on p. 248.
RulesetEvaluation. Determines how rule set models are evaluated. By default, rule sets use
Voting
to combine predictions from individual rules and determine the final prediction. Toensure that
rule sets use the first hit rule by default, select First Hit. Note that this option does not apply to
Decision List models, which always use the first hit as defined by the algorithm.