topic Looking for a SAS book for Clustering in SAS Programming

Looking for a SAS book for Clustering

GregG — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:00:55 GMT

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but I am looking for a book dealing with Customer Segmentation and Clustering using Base SAS.

The only thing I was able to find on the SAS Books website was for SAS Enterprise Miner.

https://www.sas.com/store/books/categories/usage-and-reference/customer-segmentation-and-clustering-using-sas-enterprise-miner-third-edition/prodBK_69071_en.html

Is there something similar for Base SAS?

Re: Looking for a SAS book for Clustering

ChrisNZ — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 02:34:01 GMT

If you want statistically robust clusters, you'll need to implement the relevant algorithms in Base SAS.

Since SAS already provide trusted, honed, optimised, and highly parametrable (is that a word?) ssolutions, I doubt many people have tried to reinvent the wheel. Hence the paucity of such books.

Re: Looking for a SAS book for Clustering

Ksharp — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 05:10:06 GMT

The best cluster algorithm is KNN.

Try PROC MODCLUS in SAS/STAT