Correlation between polynominal attributes?

rapid1234
rapid1234 New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A
Hi, I work with the employee attrition data set and have a question. The data set contains numerical values, bionominal and polynomial values. With the nummerical and bionominal values, I can use the operator correlationmatrix and see how the dependency on the target variable attribution is. How do I do that with polynomial values like business travel? Could I use the operater nominal to nummerical? or are there better alternatives to show the dependencies between the label and the polynomial values?

Thank you!
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  • MartinLiebig
    MartinLiebig
    Altair Employee
    Correlation is not defined for non-numerical data types. you need to use a measure which works on nominal data For example gini index.
  • rapid1234
    rapid1234 New Altair Community Member
    @mschmitzI have to choose "normalized weight" at gini index? Otherwise the correlation is very low.
  • MartinLiebig
    MartinLiebig
    Altair Employee
    Usually not. Normalize weight normalizes all values in a way, that the top value is 1.

    Keep in mind, that the normalization of gini index is totally different to the normalization of correlation. A gini index of 0.1 is usually a powerful attribute.

    BR,
    Martin

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