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SAS/STAT 922 User's Guide: The MIXED Procedure (Book Excerpt)

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4538 ✦ Chapter 56: <strong>The</strong> <strong>MIXED</strong> <strong>Procedure</strong><br />

RATIO<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>STAT</strong>ICMAP image format enables tooltips that show, for example, values of influence<br />

diagnostics associated with a particular delete estimate.<br />

This concludes the syntax section for the PLOTS= option in the PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> statement.<br />

produces the ratio of the covariance parameter estimates to the estimate of the residual variance<br />

when the latter exists in the model.<br />

RIDGE=number<br />

specifies the starting value for the minimum ridge value used in the Newton-Raphson algorithm.<br />

<strong>The</strong> default is 0.3125.<br />

SCORING< =number ><br />

requests that Fisher scoring be used in association with the estimation method up to iteration<br />

number, which is 0 by default. When you use the SCORING= option and PROC <strong>MIXED</strong><br />

converges without stopping the scoring algorithm, PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> uses the expected Hessian<br />

matrix to compute approximate standard errors for the covariance parameters instead of the<br />

observed Hessian. <strong>The</strong> output from the ASYCOV and ASYCORR options is similarly adjusted.<br />

SIGITER<br />

is an alias for the NOPROFILE option.<br />

UPDATE<br />

is an alias for the LOGNOTE option.<br />

BY Statement<br />

BY variables ;<br />

You can specify a BY statement with PROC <strong>MIXED</strong> to obtain separate analyses on observations in<br />

groups that are defined by the BY variables. When a BY statement appears, the procedure expects the<br />

input data set to be sorted in order of the BY variables. If you specify more than one BY statement,<br />

only the last one specified is used.<br />

If your input data set is not sorted in ascending order, use one of the following alternatives:<br />

Sort the data by using the SORT procedure with a similar BY statement.<br />

Specify the NOTSORTED or DESCENDING option in the BY statement for the <strong>MIXED</strong><br />

procedure. <strong>The</strong> NOTSORTED option does not mean that the data are unsorted but rather that<br />

the data are arranged in groups (according to values of the BY variables) and that these groups<br />

are not necessarily in alphabetical or increasing numeric order.<br />

Create an index on the BY variables by using the DATASETS procedure (in Base <strong>SAS</strong><br />

software).

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