SIMILARITY Procedure
Functional Summary
The statements and options that control the SIMILARITY procedure are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Functional Summary
| Description | Statement | Option |
|---|---|---|
| Statements | ||
| Specifies BY-group processing | BY | |
| Specifies the time ID variable | ID | |
| Specifies the FCMP options | FCMPOPT | |
| Specifies input variables to analyze | INPUT | |
| Specifies target variables to analyze | TARGET | |
| Data Set Options | ||
| Specifies the input data set | PROC SIMILARITY | DATA= |
| Specifies the time series output data set | PROC SIMILARITY | OUT= |
| Specifies the measure summary output data set | PROC SIMILARITY | OUTMEASURE= |
| Specifies the path output data set | PROC SIMILARITY | OUTPATH= |
| Specifies the sequence output data set | PROC SIMILARITY | OUTSEQUENCE= |
| Specifies the summary output data set | PROC SIMILARITY | OUTSUM= |
| User-Defined Functions and Subroutine Options | ||
| Specifies FCMP quiet mode | FCMPOPT | QUIET= |
| Specifies FCMP trace mode | FCMPOPT | TRACE= |
| Accumulation and Seasonality Options | ||
| Specifies the accumulation frequency | ID | INTERVAL= |
| Specifies the length of seasonal cycle | PROC SIMILARITY | SEASONALITY= |
| Specifies the interval alignment | ID | ALIGN= |
| Specifies that the time ID variable values are not sorted | ID | NOTSORTED |
| Specifies the starting time ID value | ID | START= |
| Specifies the ending time ID value | ID | END= |
| Specifies the accumulation statistic | ID, INPUT, TARGET | ACCUMULATE= |
| Specifies the missing value interpretation | ID, INPUT, TARGET | SETMISS= |
| Specifies the zero value interpretation | ID, INPUT, TARGET | ZEROMISS= |
| Specifies the type of missing value trimming | INPUT, TARGET | TRIMMISS= |
| Time Series Transformation Options | ||
| Specifies simple differencing | INPUT, TARGET | DIF= |
| Specifies seasonal differencing | INPUT, TARGET | SDIF= |
| Specifies the transformation | INPUT, TARGET | TRANSFORM= |
| Input Sequence Options | ||
| Specifies normalization | INPUT | NORMALIZE= |
| Specifies scaling | INPUT | SCALE= |
| Target Sequence Options | ||
| Specifies normalization | TARGET | NORMALIZE= |
| Similarity Measure Options | ||
| Specifies the compression limits | TARGET | COMPRESS= |
| Specifies the expansion limits | TARGET | EXPAND= |
| Specifies the similarity measure | TARGET | MEASURE= |
| Specifies the similarity measure and path | TARGET | PATH= |
| Specifies the sequence slide | TARGET | SLIDE= |
| Printing and Graphical Control Options | ||
| Specifies the time ID format | ID | FORMAT= |
| Specifies printed output | PROC SIMILARITY | PRINT= |
| Specifies detailed printed output | PROC SIMILARITY | PRINTDETAILS |
| Specifies graphical output | PROC SIMILARITY | PLOTS= |
| Miscellaneous Options | ||
| Specifies that analysis variables are processed in ascending order | PROC SIMILARITY | SORTNAMES |
| Specifies the ordering of the processing of the input and target variables | PROC SIMILARITY | ORDER= |
Last updated: June 19, 2025