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SAS Notes V6-ARIMA-E343
MINIC table values may be 'OPTIMAL' rather than set to missing


If the MINIC option is specified on the IDENTIFY statement to aid in the identification of the best model to fit and the number of observations in the data set is small, then the MINIC table may have some large negative values for higher order AR and MA models. These large negative numbers are declared as optimal by the procedure, but they should be set to missing values instead. High order AR and MA models are not meaningful when the input data set is small.


Products: ETS
Component: ARIMA
Priority: MED
Status: Outstanding Problem
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997

System Release Reported Release Fixed
AIX/6000 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
HP-UX Operating Systems 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
IBM OS/2 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
Solaris 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
OpenVMS Alpha 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
Windows 3.11 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
Windows NT 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  
Windows 95 6.12 TS020 6.12 TS045  

No Fixes Available