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

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LSMEANS Statement ✦ 3921<br />

are displayed as missing. Conversely, the CONTROLU difftype tests whether the noncontrol<br />

levels are significantly larger than the control; the upper confidence limits for the noncontrol<br />

levels minus the control are considered to be infinity and are displayed as missing.<br />

If you want to perform multiple comparison adjustments on the differences of LS-means, you<br />

must specify the ADJUST= option.<br />

<strong>The</strong> differences of the LS-means are displayed in a table titled “Differences of Least Squares<br />

Means.” For ODS purposes, the table name is “Diffs.”<br />

requests that the L matrix coefficients for all LSMEANS effects be displayed. For ODS<br />

purposes, the name of this “L Matrix Coefficients” table is “Coef.”<br />

OM< =OM-data-set ><br />

OBSMARGINS< =OM-data-set ><br />

specifies a potentially different weighting scheme for the computation of LS-means coefficients.<br />

<strong>The</strong> standard LS-means have equal coefficients across classification effects; however,<br />

the OM option changes these coefficients to be proportional to those found in OM-data-set.<br />

This adjustment is reasonable when you want your inferences to apply to a population that is<br />

not necessarily balanced but has the margins observed in OM-data-set.<br />

PDIFF<br />

By default, OM-data-set is the same as the analysis data set. You can optionally specify another<br />

data set that describes the population for which you want to make inferences. This data<br />

set must contain all model variables except for the dependent variable (which is ignored if it<br />

is present). In addition, the levels of all CLASS variables must be the same as those occurring<br />

in the analysis data set. Specifying an OM-data-set enables you to construct arbitrarily<br />

weighted LS-means.<br />

In computing the observed margins, PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> uses all observations for which there<br />

are no missing or invalid independent variables, including those for which there are missing<br />

dependent variables. Also, if OM-data-set has a WEIGHT variable, PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> uses<br />

weighted margins to construct the LS-means coefficients. If OM-data-set is balanced, the<br />

LS-means are unchanged by the OM option.<br />

<strong>The</strong> BYLEVEL option modifies the observed-margins LS-means. Instead of computing the<br />

margins across all of the OM-data-set, PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> computes separate margins for each<br />

level of the LSMEANS effect in question. In this case the resulting LS-means are actually<br />

equal to raw means for fixed-effects models and certain balanced random-effects models, but<br />

their estimated standard errors account for the covariance structure that you have specified. If<br />

the AT option is specified, the BYLEVEL option disables it.<br />

You can use the E option in conjunction with either the OM or BYLEVEL option to check that<br />

the modified LS-means coefficients are the ones you want. It is possible that the modified LSmeans<br />

are not estimable when the standard ones are, or vice versa. Nonestimable LS-means<br />

are noted as “Non-est” in the output.<br />

is the same as the DIFF option.

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