https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/856966#M42385 <P>Not sure if this helps but the&nbsp;<A href="https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lefunctionsref/p1r4l9jwgatggtn1ko81fyjys4s7.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COMPGED</A>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<A href="https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lefunctionsref/p0vmuxh8ljfn7on164nsgvmdrc5d.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPEDIS</A> functions might do something similar to what you want.</P> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 22:42:33 GMT SASKiwi 2023-02-02T22:42:33Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/856838#M42380 <P>Is it possible to calculate a cosine similarity for strings? I have data on a class of patents so I have to consider a string with letters and numbers&nbsp;</P> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:07:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/856838#M42380 Ramiro_iese 2023-02-02T14:07:36Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/856966#M42385 <P>Not sure if this helps but the&nbsp;<A href="https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lefunctionsref/p1r4l9jwgatggtn1ko81fyjys4s7.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COMPGED</A>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<A href="https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/lefunctionsref/p0vmuxh8ljfn7on164nsgvmdrc5d.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPEDIS</A> functions might do something similar to what you want.</P> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 22:42:33 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/856966#M42385 SASKiwi 2023-02-02T22:42:33Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/857028#M42391 Check <a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13684">@Rick_SAS</a> 's blogs:<BR /><A href="https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/09/03/cosine-similarity.html" target="_blank">https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/09/03/cosine-similarity.html</A><BR /><A href="https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/09/05/cosine-similarity-recommendations.html" target="_blank">https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2019/09/05/cosine-similarity-recommendations.html</A> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:30:12 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Cosine-Similarity/m-p/857028#M42391 Ksharp 2023-02-03T13:30:12Z