The SIMILARITY Procedure

OUTMEASURE= Data Set

The OUTMEASURE= data set records the similarity measures between each INPUT and TARGET statement variable with respect to each time ID value. The form of the OUTMEASURE= data set depends on the SORTNAMES and ORDER= options. The OUTMEASURE= data set contains the variables specified in the BY statement in addition to the variables listed below.

For ORDER=INPUTTARGET and ORDER=TARGETINPUT, the OUTMEASURE= data set has the following form:

_INPUT_: input variable name
_TARGET_: target variable name
_TIMEID_: time ID values
_INPSEQ_: input sequence values
_TARSEQ_: target sequence values
_SIM_: similarity measures

The OUTMEASURE= data set is ordered by the variables _INPUT_, then _TARGET_, then _TIMEID_ when ORDER=INPUTTARGET. The OUTMEASURE= data set is ordered by the variables _TARGET_, then _INPUT_, then _TIMEID_ when ORDER=TARGETINPUT.

For ORDER=INPUT, the OUTMEASURE= data set has the following form:

_INPUT_: input variable name
_TIMEID_: time ID values
_INPSEQ_: input sequence values
target-names: similarity measures that are associated with each TARGET statement variable name

The OUTMEASURE= data set is ordered by the variables _INPUT_, then _TIMEID_.

For ORDER=TARGET, the OUTMEASURE= data set has the following form:

_TARGET_: target variable name
_TIMEID_: time ID values
_TARSEQ_: target sequence values
input-names: similarity measures that are associated with each INPUT statement variable name

The OUTMEASURE= data set is ordered by the variables _TARGET_, then _TIMEID_.