Including Predefined Events in the Project

SAS Visual Forecasting is shipped with a list of predefined eventsan incident that disrupts the normal flow of any process that generates the time series. Examples of events are holidays, retail promotions, and natural disasters. that you can use in any project. You include and assign events at the project level. You can further define event usage for each modeling node in a pipeline. The following predefined events are available.

Follow these steps to specify how predefined events should be used in your project.

1. On the Data tab for a project, select Predefined events under Events in the left pane.

   The predefined events are shown in the middle pane and the Usage in System Models column shows all events as Do not use. When one or more events are selected, the usage can be changed in the right pane.

2. Select an event that you want to use.
3. In the right pane, select one of these options, depending on how you want the event to be used for the project.

   Note: When events are listed in a table, sorting the Usage in System Models column sorts the events in the usage order listed here, either ascending or descending.

   Do not use

   Do not include the event in the model.

   Try to use

   Include the event in the model as long as the parameters of the events are significant and the increment of the value of the criterion exceeds a specified threshold.

   Use if significant

   Include the event in the model as long as the parameters of the events are significant.

   Force use

   Include the event in the model as long as the model does not fail to be diagnosed.

Continue these steps for any other events that you want included in the project.

See Also

• Changing Event Usage in Modeling Nodes