The following new procedures have been added to SAS/ETS software:

• The SEVERITY procedure (Experimental)

• The TIMEID procedure (Experimental)

The SIMILARITY procedure, which performs similarity analysis for sets of time series, was experimental in the previous release and is now production status.

A new Java application, called the SAS/ETS Model Editor (Experimental), provides a graphical user interface for editing nonlinear statistical models and provides a convenient way to use the MODEL procedure.

New features have been added to the following SAS/ETS components:

• The AUTOREG procedure

• The COUNTREG procedure

• The MDC procedure

• The MODEL procedure

• The QLIM procedure

• SASEFAME interface engine

• SASEHAVR interface engine

• The TIMESERIES procedure

• The UCM procedure

• The X12 procedure

New features for defining custom time intervals have been added to Base SAS software that might be of interest to SAS/ETS users. For more information, see SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.