topic Re: Nearest Neighbor - Maybe?? in Statistical Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167436#M8735 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>By coincidence, there was a presenation on exactly this topic (choosing peer institutions) at SAS Global Forum 2014. The paper is online:</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/1279-2014.pdf">Selecting Peer Institutions with Cluster Analysis</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:50:36 GMT Rick_SAS 2014-04-03T18:50:36Z Nearest Neighbor - Maybe?? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167434#M8733 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a subject school in a dataset - I want to find similar schools to the subject school (say k=30) based on a few attributes (some categorical others continuous).&nbsp; What statistical procedure or equation could I apply in sas to return a best fit sample of schools from the dataset that most closely resemble the subject school.</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:50:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167434#M8733 pdougherty 2014-04-03T17:50:18Z Re: Nearest Neighbor - Maybe?? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167435#M8734 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sounds like cluster analysis.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:51:16 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167435#M8734 Reeza 2014-04-03T17:51:16Z Re: Nearest Neighbor - Maybe?? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167436#M8735 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>By coincidence, there was a presenation on exactly this topic (choosing peer institutions) at SAS Global Forum 2014. The paper is online:</P><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/1279-2014.pdf">Selecting Peer Institutions with Cluster Analysis</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:50:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Nearest-Neighbor-Maybe/m-p/167436#M8735 Rick_SAS 2014-04-03T18:50:36Z