What’s New in SAS/ETS 13.2


X12 Procedure

The following features have been added to the X12 procedure :

  • The ALPHA= option has been added as a general option to the FORECAST statement. The ALPHA= option specifies the size of forecast confidence limits.

  • The ALMOST= option has been added as a general option to the OUTLIER statement. The ALMOST= option specifies the difference in critical values for almost outliers.

  • The ALPHA= option has been added as a general option to the OUTLIER statement. The ALPHA= option specifies the alpha value for outlier detection.

  • The CVMETHOD= option has been added as a general option to the OUTLIER statement. The CVMETHOD= option specifies the method of calculating the critical value for outlier detection based on the alpha value and the number of observations in the span that is used for analysis.

  • The LSRUN= option has been added as a general option to the OUTLIER statement. The LSRUN= option specifies the number of level-shift outliers to consider for forming a temporary level-shift. The evaluation of the temporary level-shifts is displayed in the "Tests for Cancellation of Level Shifts" table.

  • The METHOD= option has been added as a general option to the OUTLIER statement. The METHOD= option specifies the method of adding outliers at each iteration of model estimation.

  • The TCRATE= option has been added as a general option to the OUTLIER statement. The TCRATE= option specifies the rate of decay for temporary change outliers.

  • The SEASONALMA= option in the X11 statement now supports (filter-list-by-period), where (filter-list-by-period) lists the moving average filter for each period.