Base SAS 9.1.3 Procedures Guide - Acsu Buffalo

10 Chapter 1. The CORR Procedure
KENDALL
requests a table of Kendall’s tau-b coefficients based on the number of concordant
and discordant pairs of observations. Kendall’s tau-b ranges from −1 to 1.
The KENDALL option is invalid if a WEIGHT statement is used. If you use a
PARTIAL statement, probability values for Kendall’s partial tau-b are not available.
NOCORR
suppresses displaying of Pearson correlations. If you specify the OUTP= option, the
data set type remains CORR. To change the data set type to COV, CSSCP, or SSCP,
use the TYPE= data set option.
NOMISS
excludes observations with missing values from the analysis. Otherwise, PROC
CORR computes correlation statistics using all of the nonmissing pairs of variables.
Using the NOMISS option is computationally more efficient.
NOPRINT
suppresses all displayed output. Use NOPRINT if you want to create an output data
set only.
NOPROB
suppresses displaying the probabilities associated with each correlation coefficient.
NOSIMPLE
suppresses printing simple descriptive statistics for each variable. However, if you
request an output data set, the output data set still contains simple descriptive statistics
for the variables.
OUTH=output-data-set
creates an output data set containing Hoeffding’s D statistics. The contents of the
output data set are similar to the OUTP= data set. When you specify the OUTH=
option, the Hoeffding’s D statistics will be displayed, and the Pearson correlations
will be displayed only if the PEARSON, ALPHA, COV, CSSCP, SSCP, or OUT=
option is also specified.
OUTK=output-data-set
creates an output data set containing Kendall correlation statistics. The contents of
the output data set are similar to those of the OUTP= data set. When you specify the
OUTK= option, the Kendall correlation statistics will be displayed, and the Pearson
correlations will be displayed only if the PEARSON, ALPHA, COV, CSSCP, SSCP,
or OUT= option is also specified.
OUTP=output-data-set
OUT=output-data-set
creates an output data set containing Pearson correlation statistics. This data set also
includes means, standard deviations, and the number of observations. The value of
the –TYPE– variable is ‘CORR.’ When you specify the OUTP= option, the Pearson
correlations will also be displayed. If you specify the ALPHA option, the output data
set also contains six observations with Cronbach’s coefficient alpha.