Predictive Model for Categorical Variables

[haf27]

Hi Experts,

I am fairly new to SAS EG and analytics, so would appreciate any support.

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)

One of the categorical variables (Product Name) would be my dependent variable, the one I am trying to build a predictive model for.

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?

Many thanks,

[Ayush_sas]

Hi Haf,
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!
Have a nice time!!