topic Proc Distance......how to deal with nominal values coded using number??? in Statistical Procedures

Proc Distance......how to deal with nominal values coded using number???

deleted_user — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:06:38 GMT

I am trying to use Proc Distance. Some variables that I have are actually nominal values but it was coded with numbers....such as department code>>> (coded as 123987, 902344 etc.)

How could I tell the Proc Distance that the values are NOT numeric??? How could i tell Proc Distance that the numbers are actually nominal values???

Thank you for all your help

Panda

Re: Proc Distance......how to deal with nominal values coded using number???

sbb — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:20:43 GMT

Though not my personal expertise area, there are SAS support http://support.sas.com/ references you may find useful -- I used the Google advanced search argument below to find them (for your future reference as well):

proc distance nominal variables site:sas.com

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.