Introduction

Contents of SAS/ETS Software

Procedures

SAS/ETS software includes the following SAS procedures:

ARIMA

ARIMA (Box-Jenkins) and ARIMAX (Box-Tiao) modeling and forecasting

AUTOREG

regression analysis with autocorrelated or heteroscedastic errors and ARCH and GARCH modeling

COMPUTAB

spreadsheet calculations and financial report generation

COPULA

fitting and simulating multivariate distributions by using copula methods

COUNTREG

regression modeling for dependent variables that represent counts

DATASOURCE

access to financial and economic databases

ENTROPY

maximum entropy-based regression

ESM

forecasting by using exponential smoothing models with optimized smoothing weights

EXPAND

time series interpolation, frequency conversion, and transformation of time series

LOAN

loan analysis and comparison

MDC

multinomial discrete choice analysis

MODEL

nonlinear simultaneous equations regression and nonlinear systems modeling and simulation

PANEL

panel data modeling

PDLREG

polynomial distributed lag regression

QLIM

qualitative and limited dependent variable analysis

SEVERITY

modeling the statistical distribution of the severity of losses and other events

SIMILARITY

similarity analysis of time series data for time series data mining

SIMLIN

linear systems simulation

SPATIALREG

spatial econometric models for cross-sectional data

SPECTRA

spectral and cross-spectral analysis

SSM

state space modeling of time series

STATESPACE

state space modeling and automated forecasting of multivariate time series

SYSLIN

linear simultaneous equations models

TIMEDATA

analyzes time-stamped transactional data with respect to time and accumulates the data into a time series format

TIMEID

identifying the time frequency for data sets that contain time series data

TIMESERIES

analysis of time-stamped transactional data

TMODEL

nonlinear simultaneous equations regression and nonlinear systems modeling and simulation

TSCSREG

time series cross-sectional regression analysis

UCM

unobserved components analysis of time series

VARMAX

vector autoregressive and moving average with modeling and forecasting

X11

seasonal adjustment (Census X-11 and X-11 ARIMA)

X12

seasonal adjustment (Census X-12 ARIMA)

X13

seasonal adjustment (Census X-13 ARIMA-SEATS)

High-Performance (HP) Procedures

High-performance (HP) procedures are adapted to perform optimally in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) mode, providing faster performance by making multiple CPUs available to complete individual processes simultaneously.

SAS/ETS software includes the following high-performance procedures:

HPCDM

high-performance compound distribution models

HPCOPULA

high-performance fitting and simulation of multivariate distributions by using copula methods

HPCOUNTREG

high-performance regression modeling for count dependent variables

HPPANEL

high-performance panel data modeling

HPQLIM

high-performance qualitative and limited dependent variable analysis

HPSEVERITY

high-performance modeling of the severity of losses and other events

Access Interfaces to Economic and Financial Databases

SAS/ETS software includes the following LIBNAME statement engines to provide access to financial and economic databases:

SASECRSP

LIBNAME engine for accessing time series and event data that reside in a CRSPAccess database

SASEFAME

LIBNAME engine for accessing time series or case series data that reside in a FAME database

SASEFRED

LIBNAME engine to retrieve economic data from the FRED website, which is hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

SASEHAVR

LIBNAME engine for accessing time series that reside in a Haver Analytics Data Link Express (DLX) database

SASEOECD

LIBNAME engine for accessing time series to retrieve statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) website on topics such as agriculture and fisheries, economy, education, employment, energy, environment, finance, health, industry and entrepreneurship, innovation, insurance and pensions, international migration, internet economy, investment, OECD.Stat data warehouse, regional, rural and urban development, science and technology, social and welfare issues, tax, trade, and transport

SASEQUAN

LIBNAME engine to retrieve economic data from the Quandl website, which offers access to 8 million time series data sets from 400 sources in finance, economics, society, health, energy, demography, and more

SASEXCCM

LIBNAME engine for accessing data items that reside in the CRSP US Stock (STK) Database, the CRSP US Stock and Indices (IND) Database, the CRSP US Treasury (TRS) Database, or the CRSP/Compustat Merged (CCM) Database, which is created from data delivered via Standard & Poor’s Compustat Xpressfeed product

SASEXFSD

LIBNAME engine for accessing both FactSet data and FactSet-sourced data that are provided by the FactSet OnDemand service

SASEWBGO

LIBNAME engine for accessing time series to retrieve statistical data from the World Bank Group Open (WBGO) data website, hosted by the World Bank Group. The most popular is the World Development Indicators (WDI) database, which presents the most current and accurate global development data available, including national, regional, and global estimates. The SASEWBGO interface engine supports access to the WDI database, but it also provides access to time series in other WBGO databases, such as the Global Economic Monitor (GEM) and the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS)

Access Interfaces to Global Weather and NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory Databases

SAS/ETS software includes the following LIBNAME statement engines to provide access to global weather and severe weather databases:

SASENOAA

LIBNAME engine to retrieve severe weather data such as tornado vortex signatures; mesocyclone signatures; digital mesocyclone detection algorithm; hail, storm cell structure, and preliminary local storm reports; and severe thunderstorm, tornado, flash flood, and special marine warnings from the NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI) web service

SASERAIN

LIBNAME engine to retrieve global weather data such as temperature, precipitation (rainfall), weather description, weather icon, and wind speed from the World Weather Online website

Macros

SAS/ETS software includes the following SAS macros:

%AR

generates statements to define autoregressive error models for the MODEL procedure

%EQAR

defines autoregressive error models that are specified using general form equations for the MODEL procedure

%BOXCOXAR

investigates Box-Cox transformations useful for modeling and forecasting a time series

%DFPVALUE

computes probabilities for Dickey-Fuller test statistics

%DFTEST

performs Dickey-Fuller tests for unit roots in a time series process

%LOGTEST

tests to determine whether a log transformation is appropriate for modeling and forecasting a time series

%MA

generates statements to define moving-average error models for the MODEL procedure

%EQMA

defines moving-average error models that are specified using general form equations for the MODEL procedure

%PDL

generates statements to define polynomial distributed lag models for the MODEL procedure

These macros are part of the SAS AUTOCALL facility and are automatically available for use in your SAS program. For information about the SAS macro facility, see SAS Macro Language: Reference.

Last updated: June 19, 2025