SAS® Analytical Products 12.1

SAS/STAT 12.1 introduces several new procedures for modern regression analysis, as well as updating its Bayesian capabilities and providing additional graphics. New procedures provide:

• Multivariate adaptive regression splines
• Quantile regression for censored data
• Model selection for quantile regression
• Direct and indirect standardized rates and proportions

Some of the many other enhancements include:

• Mosaic plots and heat maps
• Sampling for missing responses and covariates in the MCMC procedure
• Bayesian frailty models in the PHREG procedure

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SAS/ETS®

SAS/ETS 12.1 introduces many new estimation features, including Bayesian options, new variable selection methods, a new data access engine, and many enhancements to existing procedures. Highlights include these:

• The QLIM procedure provides Bayesian estimation for many univariate models.
• The PANEL and AUTOREG procedures produce variance-covariance matrices for estimates in the presence of heteroscedasticity and/or autocorrelation of unknown form.
• The AUTOREG and PANEL procedures provide p-values based on accurate high-performance simulation methods for many test statistics.
• The COUNTREG and QLIM procedures now support the greedy search method of variable selection.
• The X12 procedure now includes the SEATS decomposition method.

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SAS® Enterprise Miner™

SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1 provides improvements to the product's core user interface, as well as updates to the SAS Enterprise Miner Credit Scoring nodes and the SAS Enterprise Miner Application nodes. Updates include:

• The Incremental Response Analysis (Net Lift Modeling) is now production.
• The Time Series Data Mining nodes are now production and support sequence data.
• The Interactive Grouping node user interface has been redesigned to provide improved usability, performance, and computational scalability.
• The Scorecard node processes indeterminate outcome values and enables the selection of specific adverse reason codes to be included in the summary results.

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SAS/QC®

SAS/QC 12.1 provides updates for multivariate process monitoring and other enhancements.

• The MVPMODEL and MVPMONITOR procedures for multivariate process monitoring are now production.
• The new MVPDIAGNOSE procedure produces contribution plots for multivariate process monitoring.
• The PARETO procedure creates new types of Pareto charts.
• The RELIABILITY procedure adds functionality for post-fit analysis of regression models.
• The RELIABILITY procedure provides additional tests and displays for analysis of recurrent events data.

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SAS/IML®

SAS/IML 12.1 includes numerous changes and enhancements, such as:

• Syntax for defining default parameter values in user-defined modules
• Syntax for reading and writing SAS DATA sets whose names are not known until run time
• New statistical functions, subroutines, and modules, including those for finding Mahalanobis distance between observations, computing the vector or matrix norm of the argument, and generating a random sample
• Support for additional distributions and parameters for generating random samples with the RANDGEN subroutine

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SAS/IML® Studio

SAS/IML Studio 12.1 includes new features such as:

• The availability of both a 64-bit edition and a 32-bit edition
• Support for the ODS HTML destination, which means that you can now display ODS statistical graphics. The ODS HTML destination is now the default destination.
• An improved ability to run multiple programs in parallel on computers with multiple or multicore processors
• Support for copying plots that are created in R into the ODS HTML and LISTING destinations

SAS/OR®

SAS/OR 12.1 provides many new features for optimization, simulation, and scheduling. These include:

• Multithreading is now available for problem generation in the OPTMODEL procedure, nonlinear multistart optimization, and option tuning for mixed integer linear optimization.
• A new decomposition algorithm (DECOMP) is available for the LP and MILP solvers.
• The new OPTNET procedure provides analysis and optimization of network structures.
• You can invoke SAS code with the new SUBMIT block in PROC OPTMODEL.
• SAS® Simulation Studio has improved capacity for working with large models and experiments.

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SAS® Simulation Studio

SAS Simulation Studio 12.1 provides a number of enhancements. It now:

• Dramatically enhances users' ability to work with large models and experiments
• Introduces new tools for building and navigating large models
• Provides a new search capability to locate blocks by label and type
• Surfaces an alternate Experiment window layout that accommodates large numbers of factors and responses
• Adds a submodel component (experimental) that expands in a separate window
and enables centralized updates of multiple submodel instances
• Provides selective animation capabilities, enabling you to animate specific model sections
for specified time periods and at customized speeds

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SAS® Forecast Server

SAS Forecast Server 12.1 updates SAS® Forecast Studio, adds computational features, and provides these clients:

• SAS® Time Series Studio enables users to interactively explore, analyze, and structure time series data from several hierarchical and frequency perspectives.
• SAS® Forecast Project Manager enables users to perform administrative tasks for managing SAS Forecast Studio projects.
• The HPFENGINE procedure supports LOESS overlays in the error series ODS plots.
• The HPFARIMASPEC procedure includes a change to enable conformant differencing for input variables.
• The new HPFREPOSITORY procedure (experimental) enables users to efficiently query both model and score repository catalogs in order to generate various types of ODS reports.

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SAS® Model Manager

SAS Model Manager 12.1 provides numerous new enhancements. For example, it can:

• Produce performance reports for prediction models
• Create Basel reports (Loss Given Default and Probability of Default)
• Import SAS/STAT linear models and SAS® High-Performance Analytics models
• Score PMML models
• Run Teradata, Greenplum, DB2, or Oracle embedded process score tasks
• Create aggregated reports for champion and challengers

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SAS® Sentiment Analysis

SAS Sentiment Analysis 12.1 includes many new and enhanced features:

• Support for the Farsi language
• Multilevel taxonomies drill deeper than two levels
• Sentiment scores reported for each node in the taxonomy
• The UNLESS operator limits rule matches when the specified term is present in context.
• Direct upload of models from studio to server
• Pre-built taxonomies for multiple domains

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SAS® Content Categorization

SAS Content Categorization 12.1 includes the following new features:

• Improved automatic rule term generation algorithm that uses maximum entropy classifiers
• Support for the Farsi language
• Wikipedia-based subcategory and rule generation in eight additional languages
• Predefined entities to save rule development time
• Rearchitected version of SAS® Document Conversion Server based on the Apache Tika framework
• XPath support allowing for fine-grained extraction from users' documents

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SAS® Text Miner

SAS Text Miner 12.1 includes several new features:

• New Text Rule Builder node
• Enhancements to Text Mining nodes
• New sample data set

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Other Resources

• SAS Product Pages
• Statistics and Operations Research Focus Area
• Advanced Analytics Handouts
• SAS Product Documentation