The SIMILARITY Procedure

Functional Summary

The statements and options that control the SIMILARITY procedure are summarized in the following table.

Table 31.1: SIMILARITY Functional Summary

Description

Statement

Option

Statements

   

Specifies BY-group processing

BY

 

Specifies the time ID variable

ID

 

Specifies the FCMP options

FCMPOPT

 

Specifies input variables to analyze

INPUT

 

Specifies target variables to analyze

TARGET

 

Data Set Options

   

Specifies the input data set

PROC SIMILARITY

DATA=

Specifies the time series output data set

PROC SIMILARITY

OUT=

Specifies the measure summary output data set

PROC SIMILARITY

OUTMEASURE=

Specifies the path output data set

PROC SIMILARITY

OUTPATH=

Specifies the sequence output data set

PROC SIMILARITY

OUTSEQUENCE=

Specifies the summary output data set

PROC SIMILARITY

OUTSUM=

User-Defined Functions and Subroutine Options

   

Specifies FCMP quiet mode

FCMPOPT

QUIET=

Specifies FCMP trace mode

FCMPOPT

TRACE=

Accumulation and Seasonality Options

   

Specifies the accumulation frequency

ID

INTERVAL=

Specifies the length of seasonal cycle

PROC SIMILARITY

SEASONALITY=

Specifies the interval alignment

ID

ALIGN=

Specifies that the time ID variable values are not sorted

ID

NOTSORTED

Specifies the starting time ID value

ID

START=

Specifies the ending time ID value

ID

END=

Specifies the accumulation statistic

ID , INPUT , TARGET

ACCUMULATE=

Specifies the missing value interpretation

ID , INPUT , TARGET

SETMISS=

Specifies the zero value interpretation

ID , INPUT , TARGET

ZEROMISS=

Specifies the type of missing value trimming

INPUT , TARGET

TRIMMISS=

Time Series Transformation Options

   

Specifies simple differencing

INPUT , TARGET

DIF=

Specifies seasonal differencing

INPUT , TARGET

SDIF=

Specifies the transformation

INPUT , TARGET

TRANSFORM=

Input Sequence Options

   

Specifies normalization

INPUT

NORMALIZE=

Specifies scaling

INPUT

SCALE=

Target Sequence Options

   

Specifies normalization

TARGET

NORMALIZE=

Similarity Measure Options

   

Specifies the compression limits

TARGET

COMPRESS=

Specifies the expansion limits

TARGET

EXPAND=

Specifies the similarity measure

TARGET

MEASURE=

Specifies the similarity measure and path

TARGET

PATH=

Specifies the sequence slide

TARGET

SLIDE=

Printing and Graphical Control Options

   

Specifies the time ID format

ID

FORMAT=

Specifies printed output

PROC SIMILARITY

PRINT=

Specifies detailed printed output

PROC SIMILARITY

PRINTDETAILS

Specifies graphical output

PROC SIMILARITY

PLOTS=

Miscellaneous Options

   

Specifies that analysis variables are processed in ascending order

PROC SIMILARITY

SORTNAMES

Specifies the ordering of the processing of the input and target variables

PROC SIMILARITY

ORDER=