topic Re: Predictive Model for Categorical Variables in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Predictive-Model-for-Categorical-Variables/m-p/548109#M33353 Hi Haf,<BR />Since you might have got the solution of the issue raised by you, it shall be a good practice to update that here as well!<BR />Have a nice time!! Wed, 03 Apr 2019 06:33:54 GMT Ayush_sas 2019-04-03T06:33:54Z Predictive Model for Categorical Variables https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Predictive-Model-for-Categorical-Variables/m-p/197735#M14918 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Experts,</P><P></P><P>I am fairly new to SAS EG and analytics, so would appreciate any support.</P><P></P><P>I have a dataset with 8 variables, 6 of which are categorical with two and more values (i.e. Gender would have two variables but Geography IDs would have up to 10 values/indices)</P><P></P><P>One of the categorical variables (Product Name) would be my dependent variable, the one I am trying to build a predictive model for.</P><P></P><P>My question, perhaps trivial, is would I be able to use the Linear Regression under the Analyze function or considering the categorical nature of my data would I be better off using another function?</P><P></P><P>Many thanks,</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:17:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Predictive-Model-for-Categorical-Variables/m-p/197735#M14918 haf27 2015-07-08T00:17:25Z Re: Predictive Model for Categorical Variables https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Predictive-Model-for-Categorical-Variables/m-p/548109#M33353 Hi Haf,<BR />Since you might have got the solution of the issue raised by you, it shall be a good practice to update that here as well!<BR />Have a nice time!! Wed, 03 Apr 2019 06:33:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Predictive-Model-for-Categorical-Variables/m-p/548109#M33353 Ayush_sas 2019-04-03T06:33:54Z