The TIMESERIES Procedure

TREND Statement

TREND statistics < / options > ;

A TREND statement can be used with the TIMESERIES procedure to specify options related to trend analysis of the time-stamped transactional data. Only one TREND statement is allowed. The options specified affect all variables specified in the VAR statements.

The following trend statistics are available:

NOBS: number of observations
N: number of nonmissing observations
NMISS: number of missing observations
MINIMUM: minimum value
MAXIMUM: maximum value
RANGE: range value
SUM: summation value
MEAN: mean value
STDDEV: standard deviation
CSS: corrected sum of squares
USS: uncorrected sum of squares
MEDIAN: median value

If none of the trend statistics are specified, the default is as follows:

   trend n min max mean std;

The following options can be specified in the TREND statement following the slash (/):

NPERIODS= number

specifies the number of time periods to be stored in the OUTTREND= data set when the TRANSPOSE=YES option is specified. If the TRANSPOSE option is not specified, the NPERIODS= option is ignored. The NPERIODS= option specifies the number of OUTTREND= data set variables to contain the trend statistics and is therefore limited to the maximum allowed number of SAS variables.

If the NPERIODS= option is not specified, all of the periods specified between the ID statement START= and END= options are stored. If at least one of the START= or END= options is not specified, the default magnitude is the seasonality specified by the SEASONALITY= option in the PROC TIMESERIES statement or implied by the INTERVAL= option in the ID statement. If only the START= option or both the START= and END= options are specified and the seasonality is zero, the default is NPERIODS=5. If only the END= option or neither the START= nor END= option is specified and the seasonality is zero, the default is NPERIODS=–5.

TRANSPOSE= NO | YES

specifies which values are recorded as column names in the OUTTREND= data set. TRANSPOSE=YES specifies that the time periods be recorded as the column names instead of the statistics as the column names. The first and last time periods stored in the OUTTREND= data set correspond to the period of the ID statement START= and END= options, respectively. If only the ID statement END= option is specified, the last time ID value of each accumulated time series corresponds to the last time period column. If only the ID statement START= option is specified, the first time ID value of each accumulated time series corresponds to the first time period column. If neither the START= option nor the END= option is specified with the ID statement, the first time ID value of each accumulated time series corresponds to the first time period column. The TRANSPOSE=NO option is useful for analyzing or displaying the trend analysis results with SAS/GRAPH procedures. The TRANSPOSE=YES option is useful for analyzing the trend analysis results with other SAS procedures or SAS Enterprise Miner software. The default is TRANSPOSE=NO.