Categorical variables/New values for categorical variable?
Hi, I'm super new to predictive modeling, I'm hoping someone can help. I have a data set that has 7 variables, 4 of which are categorical (2 nominal, 2 ordinal). I have partitioned my data into training and validation. I also have a "new" data set for which I want to run my model on. In my training/validation partitions I have ordinal variable x1, it has the following values: b, c, d, e, f. ...