topic Can I combine predictive modelling with time series? in SAS Data Science https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Can-I-combine-predictive-modelling-with-time-series/m-p/636028#M8193 <P>I need to build up a model to predict sales using several variabls (including info about date, promo, competition, etc.). How can I combine the pattern in date (time series) and other input variables in SAS miner?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Another question is about partitioning the data into training and validation. How can I partition the data while preserving the patterns of time series? I've seen some articles on SAS Miner website. Some articles say I can do that only by using SAS code (which is a little difficult for me to understant). Others say I can do that with the partition node's user-defined sampling.&nbsp;But I do not see "user-defined" but just "cluster" sampling. Are they the same?</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Hope those experts could help me out of this. Thanks!</SPAN></P> Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:10:46 GMT Adeline 2020-03-30T22:10:46Z Can I combine predictive modelling with time series? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Can-I-combine-predictive-modelling-with-time-series/m-p/636028#M8193 <P>I need to build up a model to predict sales using several variabls (including info about date, promo, competition, etc.). How can I combine the pattern in date (time series) and other input variables in SAS miner?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Another question is about partitioning the data into training and validation. How can I partition the data while preserving the patterns of time series? I've seen some articles on SAS Miner website. Some articles say I can do that only by using SAS code (which is a little difficult for me to understant). Others say I can do that with the partition node's user-defined sampling.&nbsp;But I do not see "user-defined" but just "cluster" sampling. Are they the same?</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Hope those experts could help me out of this. Thanks!</SPAN></P> Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:10:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Can-I-combine-predictive-modelling-with-time-series/m-p/636028#M8193 Adeline 2020-03-30T22:10:46Z