Patent ID: 9361274
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one processor to: calculate, by the at least one processor, basic statistics for a pair of categorical predictor variables and a target variable from a dataset during a single pass over the dataset, wherein the basic statistics include a number of categories for a first categorical predictor variable of the pair and a number of categories for a second categorical predictor variable of the pair, and wherein the target variable is associated with a purchase decision; and determine, by the at least one processor, that there are significant interaction effects for the pair of categorical predictor variables on the target variable based on a pattern by: output the significant interaction effects for the pair of categorical predictor variables on the target variable in a list for subsequent analyses to determine a behavior of the purchase decision.