Introduction

Chapter Organization

This book contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, this chapter, provides an overview of SAS Econometrics procedures and summarizes related information, products, and services.

  • Chapter 4 provides information about topics that are common to multiple procedures. Topics include how to use SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) sessions and how to load a SAS data set onto a CAS server. This chapter also documents the following statements that are used across a number of procedures: CLASS, DISPLAY, DISPLAYOUT, EFFECT, and SELECTION.

  • Next are chapters that describe the procedures; they appear in alphabetical order by procedure name and are organized as follows:

    • The "Overview" section briefly describes the analysis provided by the procedure.

    • The "Getting Started" section provides a quick introduction to the procedure through a simple example.

    • The "Syntax" section describes the SAS statements and options that control the procedure.

    • The "Details" section discusses methodology and other topics, such as ODS tables.

    • The "Examples" section contains examples that use the procedure.

    • The "References" section contains references for the methodology.

  • The last chapters in the book describe packages that you can use with the TSMODEL procedure. For more information about using packages, see SAS Visual Forecasting: Time Series Packages.

Last updated: July 09, 2026