Changing Event Usage
In the left pane of the Data tab, selecting a data source under Events shows the list of 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.. The data source could be the predefined events provided by SAS Visual Forecasting or a data set with custom event definitions that was imported for the project.
In the middle pane, each event for the data source is listed along with the event settings, under the column Usage in System Models. These settings are the default settings used by the models in each pipeline, unless you change the event setting for any individual models within the pipeline, as described in Changing Event Usage in Modeling Nodes.
Follow these steps to change the default event settings.
- With the event data source selected in the left pane, select an event in the middle pane. You can select multiple events if you want to assign the same setting to more than one event.
- In the right pane, click Usage
in system-generated models to view the settings that you can apply to the event. If the right pane is not visible, click
to display it. - Select one of the following settings for
Usage in system-generated models.
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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
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Do not include the event in the model.
- Try to use
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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
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Include the event in the model as long as the parameters of the events are significant.
- Force use
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Include the event in the model as long as the model does not fail to be diagnosed.
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The new settings are displayed in the middle pane under Usage in System Models. Any pipelines that have been run become out-of-date and must be run again.