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SAS/STAT 9.2 User's Guide: The MIXED Procedure (Book Excerpt)

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3914 ✦ Chapter 56: <strong>The</strong> <strong>MIXED</strong> <strong>Procedure</strong><br />

SINGULAR=number<br />

tunes the estimability checking. If v is a vector, define ABS(v) to be the absolute value of the<br />

element of v with the largest absolute value. If ABS(K 0 K 0 T) is greater than C*number for<br />

any row of K 0 in the contrast, then K is declared nonestimable. Here T is the Hermite form<br />

matrix .X 0 X/ X 0 X, and C is ABS(K 0 ) except when it equals 0, and then C is 1. <strong>The</strong> value for<br />

number must be between 0 and 1; the default is 1E 4.<br />

SUBJECT coeffs<br />

SUB coeffs<br />

sets up random-effect contrasts between different subjects when a SUBJECT= variable appears<br />

in the RANDOM statement. By default, CONTRAST statement coefficients on random<br />

effects are distributed equally across subjects.<br />

ESTIMATE Statement<br />

ESTIMATE ’label’ < fixed-effect values . . . ><br />

< | random-effect values . . . >< / options > ;<br />

<strong>The</strong> ESTIMATE statement is exactly like a CONTRAST statement, except only one-row L matrices<br />

are permitted. <strong>The</strong> actual estimate, L 0 bp, is displayed along with its approximate standard error. An<br />

approximate t test that L 0 bp = 0 is also produced.<br />

PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> selects the degrees of freedom to match those displayed in the “Tests of Fixed<br />

Effects” table for the final effect you list in the ESTIMATE statement. You can modify the degrees<br />

of freedom by using the DF= option.<br />

If PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> finds the fixed-effects portion of the specified estimate to be nonestimable, then<br />

it displays “Non-est” for the estimate entries.<br />

<strong>The</strong> following examples of ESTIMATE statements compute the mean of the first level of A in the<br />

split-plot example (see Example 56.1) for various inference spaces:<br />

estimate ’A1 mean narrow’ intercept 1<br />

A 1 B .5 .5 A*B .5 .5 |<br />

block .25 .25 .25 .25<br />

A*Block .25 .25 .25 .25<br />

0 0 0 0<br />

0 0 0 0;<br />

estimate ’A1 mean intermed’ intercept 1<br />

A 1 B .5 .5 A*B .5 .5 |<br />

Block .25 .25 .25 .25;<br />

estimate ’A1 mean broad’ intercept 1<br />

A 1 B .5 .5 A*B .5 .5;<br />

<strong>The</strong> construction of the L vector for an ESTIMATE statement follows the same rules as listed under<br />

the CONTRAST statement.<br />

You can specify the following options in the ESTIMATE statement after a slash (/).

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