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Contents
I
INSTALLING CASSES .............................................................................................................................. 4
I.1
I.2
II
ADVISED CONFIGURATION ......................................................................................................................... 4
INSTALLATION UNDER WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM .............................................................................. 4
FORMATTING THE DATA TO BE IMPORTED.................................................................................. 5
II.1
GENERAL .............................................................................................................................................. 5
II.2
PIPES FILE ............................................................................................................................................. 5
II.2.i
Structure: ........................................................................................................................................ 5
II.2.ii Example: ......................................................................................................................................... 7
II.3
BREAKS FILE ......................................................................................................................................... 8
II.3.i
Structure: ........................................................................................................................................ 8
II.3.ii Example: ......................................................................................................................................... 8
II.4
NETWORKS FILE .................................................................................................................................... 9
II.4.i
Structure: ........................................................................................................................................ 9
II.4.ii Example: ....................................................................................................................................... 10
II.5
REMARKS CONCERNING THE CREATION OF CSV FILES ......................................................................... 10
III
CONFIGURING CASSES........................................................................................................................ 12
III.1
III.2
IV
MENU “?” ........................................................................................................................................... 12
PRÉFÉRENCES ..................................................................................................................................... 12
STARTING A PROJECT......................................................................................................................... 14
IV.1
CREATING A NEW PROJECT ................................................................................................................. 14
IV.1.i Casses-Mono ................................................................................................................................. 14
IV.1.ii
Casses-Multi............................................................................................................................. 19
IV.2
OPEN A PROJECT ................................................................................................................................. 20
V
EXPLORING THE DATA ....................................................................................................................... 21
V.1
V.2
VI
ORGANISATION OF THE EXPLORER WINDOW ....................................................................................... 21
SOME USEFUL FUNCTIONALITY ........................................................................................................... 22
CREATING PIPE SETS OR BREAK SETS .......................................................................................... 23
VI.1
WHAT IS A SET? .................................................................................................................................. 23
VI.2
THE FUNCTIONING OF FILTERS ............................................................................................................ 24
VI.2.i Qualitative filtering ....................................................................................................................... 25
VI.2.ii
Quantitative filtering ................................................................................................................ 25
VI.2.iii
Combination of many filters ..................................................................................................... 25
VI.2.iv
Particular case of filtering by DHS .......................................................................................... 26
VI.3
EXPORTING SETS ................................................................................................................................. 26
VII
CREATE, MODIFY OR DELETE COVARIATES.......................................................................... 28
VII.1 COVARIATES CREATION: “MERGING” ................................................................................................. 29
VII.2 COVARIATES CREATION: “DISCRETISATION” ...................................................................................... 30
VII.3 COVARIATES CREATION: “QUANTIFICATION” ..................................................................................... 31
VII.4 COVARIATES CREATION: “FORMULA” ................................................................................................ 32
VII.5 COVARIATES CREATION: “COMBINATION” ......................................................................................... 33
VII.6 MODIFY OR DELETE COVARIATES ...................................................................................................... 34
VII.6.i
Modify a covariate.................................................................................................................... 34
VII.6.ii
Delete a covariate .................................................................................................................... 35
VIII
CONSTRUCTING A PREDICTION ................................................................................................. 36
VIII.1
VIII.2
THE ASSISTANT FOR CONSTRUCTING A PREDICTION ....................................................................... 36
CREATE AN “ENVIRONMENT” ........................................................................................................ 37
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