PROC SIMILARITY: Functional Summary :: SAS/ETS(R) 9.22 User's Guide

The SIMILARITY Procedure

Functional Summary

The statements and options that control the SIMILARITY procedure are summarized in the following table.

Table 23.1 SIMILARITY Functional Summary
Description	Statement	Option
Statements
Specifies BY-group processing	BY
Specifies the time ID variable	ID
Specifies the FCMP options	FCMPOPT
Specifies input variables to analyze	INPUT
Specifies target variables to analyze	TARGET
Data Set Options
Specifies the input data set	PROC SIMILARITY	DATA=
Specifies the time series output data set	PROC SIMILARITY	OUT=
Specifies the measure summary output data set	PROC SIMILARITY	OUTMEASURE=
Specifies the path output data set	PROC SIMILARITY	OUTPATH=
Specifies the sequence output data set	PROC SIMILARITY	OUTSEQUENCE=
Specifies the summary output data set	PROC SIMILARITY	OUTSUM=
User-Defined Functions and Subroutine Options
Specifies FCMP quiet mode	FCMPOPT	QUIET=
Specifies FCMP trace mode	FCMPOPT	TRACE=
Accumulation and Seasonality Options
Specifies the accumulation frequency	ID	INTERVAL=
Specifies the length of seasonal cycle	PROC SIMILARITY	SEASONALITY=
Specifies the interval alignment	ID	ALIGN=
Specifies that the time ID variable values are not sorted	ID	NOTSORTED
Specifies the starting time ID value	ID	START=
Specifies the ending time ID value	ID	END=
Specifies the accumulation statistic	ID, INPUT, TARGET	ACCUMULATE=
Specifies the missing value interpretation	ID, INPUT, TARGET	SETMISS=
Specifies the zero value interpretation	ID, INPUT, TARGET	ZEROMISS=
Specifies the type of missing value trimming	INPUT, TARGET	TRIMMISS=
Time Series Transformation Options
Specifies simple differencing	INPUT, TARGET	DIF=
Specifies seasonal differencing	INPUT, TARGET	SDIF=
Specifies the transformation	INPUT, TARGET	TRANSFORM=
Input Sequence Options
Specifies normalization	INPUT	NORMALIZE=
Specifies scaling	INPUT	SCALE=
Target Sequence Options
Specifies normalization	TARGET	NORMALIZE=
Similarity Measure Options
Specifies the compression limits	TARGET	COMPRESS=
Specifies the expansion limits	TARGET	EXPAND=
Specifies the similarity measure	TARGET	MEASURE=
Specifies the similarity measure and path	TARGET	PATH=
Specifies the sequence slide	TARGET	SLIDE=
Printing and Graphical Control Options
Specifies the time ID format	ID	FORMAT=
Specifies printed output	PROC SIMILARITY	PRINT=
Specifies detailed printed output	PROC SIMILARITY	PRINTDETAILS
Specifies graphical output	PROC SIMILARITY	PLOTS=
Miscellaneous Options
Specifies that analysis variables are processed in ascending order	PROC SIMILARITY	SORTNAMES
Specifies the ordering of the processsing of the input and target variables	PROC SIMILARITY	ORDER=

Note: This procedure is experimental.

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