Comparison: AnswerTree and CHAID

AnswerTree is powerful new decision tree software that replaces SPSS CHAID for automatically finding statistically significant groups in your data. AnswerTree delivers all the major enhancements you requested for SPSS CHAID.

MORE ALGORITHMS
You’ll make smarter decisions with AnswerTree because you use the right algorithm for each situation. No other decision tree product has as many powerful and algorithms. Select from:

CHAID - a fast statistical multi-way tree algorithm to explore data efficiently Exhaustive CHAID - a thorough statistical multi-way tree algorithm to explore data exhaustively Classification and Regression Tree - an exhaustive binary tree algorithm to partition data and produce accurate homogeneous subsets QUEST - a statistical algorithm to select variables without bias and build an accurate binary tree model quickly and efficiently

BETTER LOOKING RESULTS
Now get presentation quality diagrams, tables and charts. Display bar charts, summary statistics tables or both in each node of the tree diagram to clearly present results.

INTERACTIVE INTERFACE
Display charts, tables and underlying data in separate windows whenever you focus on a node in the tree diagram. Prune branches or drag and drop nodes together to combine categories. Immediately see the impact on dynamically changing tables and charts.

ADVANCED FEATURES
Build your model on a subset of your data and validate it on the remainder for more reliable models. Reuse your model on new data and save the scores for further analysis. Plus, much more.

BRIEF COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF FEATURES

FEATURE

ANSWERTREE

SPSS CHAID

STATISTICAL CAPABILITIES

 

 

Tree generating algorithms:
CHAID

yes

yes

CHAID Exhaustive

yes

 

Classification and Regression Tree

yes

 

Quest

yes

 

Variable types supported:
Nominal categorical

yes

less than 31 categories

Ordinal categorical

yes

less than 31 categories

Continuous

yes

 

Missing value handling:
Unique category

yes

yes

Ignore

yes

 

Impute

yes

 

TREE DIAGRAM, TABLES AND CHARTS

 

 

Customisable tree diagram

yes

 

Interactive diagram, charts, tables

yes

 

Grow branches selectively

yes

 

Prune branches and monitor risk change on
dynamically updating chart

yes

 

Combine segments by dragging
and dropping nodes

yes

 

Zoom in on node
and get related bar chart and table

yes

 


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