The TIMESERIES Procedure

SEASON Statement

  • SEASON statistics < / options > ;

You can use a SEASON statement to specify seasonal statistics and options that are related to seasonal analysis of the time-stamped transactional data. Only one SEASON statement is allowed. The options affect all variables specified in the VAR statements. Seasonal analysis can be performed only when the length of the seasonal cycle specified by the SEASONALITY= option in the PROC TIMESERIES statement or implied by the INTERVAL= option in the ID statement is greater than 1.

You can specify the following seasonal statistics:

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 you do not specify any of the seasonal statistics, then the default is as follows: 

   season n min max mean std;

You can also specify the following options after a slash (/):

TRANSPOSE= NO | YES

specifies which values are recorded as column names in the OUTSEASON= data set. You can specify the following values:

NO

specifies that the seasonal statistics be recorded as the column names. This option is useful for graphing the seasonal analysis results with SAS/GRAPH procedures.

YES

specifies that the seasonal indices instead of the seasonal statistics be recorded as the column names. This option is useful for analyzing the seasonal analysis results with SAS procedures or with SAS Enterprise Miner software.

By default, TRANSPOSE=NO.