Creating Your First Project

• Creating a Forecasting Project
• Assigning Variable Roles
  • Overview
  • Assigning the Time Variable
  • Assigning the Dependent Variable
  • Assigning the Default Attributes
  • Assigning Independent Variables
• Defining the Hierarchy
• Checking the Project Settings

Most projects are created using time seriesan aggregation of transactional data into specified time intervals and sorted according to unique combinations of the default attributes (BY variables) input data. You can also create a project using output data from another forecasting project. See Overview of Data Sources for Forecasting Projects to learn more about the different data sources for forecasting projects.

To open a forecasting project, click on the link in the project from the list on the SAS Model Studio Project page. Follow the steps below to set up a new project.