The HPDECIDE Procedure
TARGET Statement
TARGET variable;
The TARGET statement specifies which variable is the target variable in the data set that is specified in the DECDATA= option in the DECISION statement. The TARGET statement is required.
The HPDECIDE procedure searches for a target variable that has the same name in the input data set. If none is found, then the HPDECIDE procedure assumes that actual target values are unknown. For a categorical variable, the target variables in the data sets that are specified in the DATA= option in the PROC HPDECIDE statement and in the DECDATA= option in the DECISION statement do not need to be the same type because only the formatted values are used for comparisons. For an interval target, both variables must be numeric. If scoring code is generated by the CODE statement, the code formats the target variable by using the format and length from the DATA= data set.