SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

Current Release at
Your Site
7.1
7.1_M1
Release That You
Are Upgrading to High-Level Steps and Resources
12.1 1 Before you upgrade, see “SAS Enterprise
Miner 12.1” on page 176.
SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1
Overview of New Features and
Enhancements
2 For more information about how to install and
configure SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1, see the
SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1: Administration and
Configuration Guide.
SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1 includes many new and enhanced features that benefit both
users and administrators. For more information about SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1, see the
SAS Enterprise Miner product page at support.sas.com/software/products/miner.
End-User Features and Enhancements
n A Survival Data Mining node has been added for analysis, such as customer churn
prediction.
n An Insurance Rate Making node has been added for modeling claim count, severity,
and premium.
n The Time Series Data Mining nodes (which are experimental for this release) have
been added for modeling time-stamped data.
n A Support Vector Machine node (which is experimental for this release) has been
added for highly nonlinear models.
n Enhancements have been made to many other nodes in all categories.
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