topic Re: 1 dependent field - find most influential independent fields in SAS Programming

1 dependent field - find most influential independent fields

jagnew — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:05:57 GMT

I have a dataset with 55 columns. I want to determine which of the columns can be used to determine the likely value of column A, they are a mix of character and numeric fields.

I am not sure which method to select/statistic to use. I have tried PROC CORR but this errors due to field type.

Any advice with this would be great.

Thanks

Re: 1 dependent field - find most influential independent fields

Ksharp — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:30:12 GMT

Check PROC PLS, in its documentation, there is an example about variable's importance.

Or Check PROC HPGENSELECT,pick up the variable has the smallest P-value or the largest absolution parameter value.

Re: 1 dependent field - find most influential independent fields

jagnew — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:51:25 GMT

Thanks, I'll check those out