SAS for Forecasting Time Series, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

Chapter 9: SAS Forecast Studio

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Creating a Project

9.3 Overview of Available Modes

9.4 Project Settings

9.4.1 Model Generation

9.4.2 Goodness of Fit and Honest Assessment

9.4.2 Transformation and Outlier Detection

9.5 Creating Custom Events

9.6 Hierarchical Time Series and Reconciliation

9.1 Introduction

SAS Forecast Server provides a sophisticated framework for analyzing univariate time series. With the software, analysts can process a large number of series through built-in automated routines. Although experienced analysts might be able to study each series carefully and build better models, they might not have enough time to go through each series. Automatically produced models tend to generate sufficiently good forecasts ...