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PROC PRINQUAL Statement

PROC PRINQUAL < options > ;

The following table summarizes options available in the PROC PRINQUAL statement.

The following list describes these options in alphabetical order.

APREFIX=name

APR=name

specifies a prefix for naming the approximation variables. By default, APREFIX=A. Specifying the APREFIX= option also implies the APPROXIMATIONS option.

APPROXIMATIONS

APPROX

APP

includes principal component approximations to the transformed variables (Eckart and Young 1936) in the output data set. Variable names are constructed from the value of the APREFIX= option and the input variable names. If you specify the APREFIX= option, then approximations are automatically included. If you specify the APPROXIMATIONS option and not the APREFIX= option, then the APPROXIMATIONS option uses the default, APREFIX=A, to construct the variable names.

CCONVERGE=n

CCO=n

specifies the minimum change in the criterion being optimized that is required to continue iterating. By default, CCONVERGE=0.0. The CCONVERGE= option is ignored for METHOD=MAC. For the MGV method, specify CCONVERGE=-2 to ensure data convergence.

CHANGE=n

CHA=n

specifies the number of the first iteration to be displayed in the iteration history table. The default is CHANGE=1. When you specify a larger value for n, the first n-1 iterations are not displayed, thus speeding up the analysis. The CHANGE= option is most useful with the MGV method, which is much slower than the other methods.

CONVERGE=n

CON=n

specifies the minimum average absolute change in standardized variable scores that is required to continue iterating. By default, CONVERGE=0.00001. Average change is computed over only those variables that can be transformed by the iterations, that is, all LINEAR, OPSCORE, MONOTONE, UNTIE, SPLINE, MSPLINE, and SSPLINE variables and nonoptimal transformation variables with missing values. For more information, see the section "Optimal Transformations".

COVARIANCE

COV

computes the principal components from the covariance matrix. The variables are always centered to mean zero. If you do not specify the COVARIANCE option, the variables are also standardized to variance one, which means the analysis is based on the correlation matrix.

CORRELATIONS

COR

includes correlations and the component structure matrix in the output data set. By default, this information is not included.

DATA=SAS-data-set

specifies the SAS data set to be analyzed. The data set must be an ordinary SAS data set; it cannot be a TYPE=CORR or TYPE=COV data set. If you omit the DATA= option, the PRINQUAL procedure uses the most recently created SAS data set.

DUMMY

DUM

expands variables specified for OPSCORE optimal transformations to dummy variables for the initialization (Tenenhaus and Vachette 1977). By default, the initial values of OPSCORE variables are the actual data values. The dummy variable nominal initialization requires considerable time and memory, so it might not be possible to use the DUMMY option with large data sets. No separate report of the initialization is produced. Initialization results are incorporated into the first iteration displayed in the iteration history table. For details, see the section "Optimal Transformations".

INITITER=n

INI=n

specifies the number of MAC iterations required to initialize the data before starting MTV or MGV iterations. By default, INITITER=0. The INITITER= option is ignored if METHOD=MAC.

MAXITER=n

MAX=n

specifies the maximum number of iterations. By default, MAXITER=30.

MDPREF

MDP

specifies a multidimensional preference analysis by implying the STANDARD, SCORES, and CORRELATIONS options. This option also suppresses warnings when there are more variables than observations.

METHOD=MAC | MGV | MTV

MET=MAC | MGV | MTV

specifies the optimization method. By default, METHOD=MTV. Values of the METHOD= option are MTV for maximum total variance, MGV for minimum generalized variance, or MAC for maximum average correlation. You can use the MAC method when all variables are positively correlated or when no monotonicity constraints are placed on any transformations. See the section "The Three Methods of Variable Transformation".

MONOTONE=two-letters

MON=two-letters

specifies the first and last special missing value in the list of those special missing values to be estimated using within-variable order and category constraints. By default, there are no order constraints on missing value estimates. The two-letters value must consist of two letters in alphabetical order. For example, MONOTONE=DF means that the estimate of .D must be less than or equal to the estimate of .E, which must be less than or equal to the estimate of .F; no order constraints are placed on estimates of ._, .A through .C, and .G through .Z. For details, see the "Missing Values" section, and "Optimal Scaling" in Chapter 56, "The TRANSREG Procedure."

N=n

specifies the number of principal components to be computed. By default, N=2.

NOCHECK

NOC

turns off computationally intensive numerical error checking for the MGV method. If you do not specify the NOCHECK option, the procedure computes R² from the squared length of the predicted values vector and compares this value to the R² computed from the error sum of squares that is a by-product of the sweep algorithm (Goodnight 1978). If the two values of R² differ by more than the square root of the value of the SINGULAR= option, a warning is displayed, the value of the REFRESH= option is halved, and the model is refit after refreshing. Specifying the NOCHECK option slightly speeds up the algorithm. Note that other less computationally intensive error checking is always performed.

NOMISS

NOM

excludes all observations with missing values from the analysis, but does not exclude them from the OUT= data set. If you omit the NOMISS option, PROC PRINQUAL simultaneously computes the optimal transformations of the nonmissing values and estimates the missing values that minimize squared error.

Casewise deletion of observations with missing values occurs when you specify the NOMISS option, when there are missing values in IDENTITY variables, when there are weights less than or equal to 0, or when there are frequencies less than 1. Excluded observations are output with a blank value for the _TYPE_ variable, and they have a weight of 0. They do not contribute to the analysis but are scored and transformed as supplementary or passive observations. See the "Passive Observations" section and the "Missing Values" section for more information on excluded observations and missing data.

NOPRINT

NOP

suppresses the display of all output. Note that this option temporarily disables the Output Delivery System (ODS). For more information, see Chapter 14, "Using the Output Delivery System."

OUT=SAS-data-set

specifies an output SAS data set that contains results of the analysis. If you omit the OUT= option, PROC PRINQUAL still creates an output data set and names it using the DATAn convention. If you want to create a permanent SAS data set, you must specify a two-level name. (Refer to the discussion in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.) You can use the REPLACE, APPROXIMATIONS, SCORES, and CORRELATIONS options to control what information is included in the output data set. For details, see the "Output Data Set" section.

PREFIX=name

PRE=name

specifies a prefix for naming the principal components. By default, PREFIX=Prin. As a result, the principal component default names are Prin1, Prin2,..., Prinn.

REFRESH=n

REF=n

specifies the number of variables to scale in the MGV method before computing a new inverse. By default, REFRESH=5. PROC PRINQUAL uses the REFRESH= option in the sweep algorithm of the MGV method. Large values for the REFRESH= option make the method run faster but with increased error. Small values make the method run more slowly and with more numerical accuracy.

REITERATE

REI

enables the PRINQUAL procedure to use previous transformations as starting points. The REITERATE option affects only variables that are iteratively transformed (specified as LINEAR, SPLINE, MSPLINE, SSPLINE, UNTIE, OPSCORE, and MONOTONE). For iterative transformations, the REITERATE option requests a search in the input data set for a variable that consists of the value of the TPREFIX= option followed by the original variable name. If such a variable is found, it is used to provide the initial values for the first iteration. The final transformation is a member of the transformation family defined by the original variable, not the transformation family defined by the initialization variable. See the "REITERATE Option Usage" section.

REPLACE

REP

replaces the original data with the transformed data in the output data set. The names of the transformed variables in the output data set correspond to the names of the original variables in the input data set. If you do not specify the REPLACE option, both original variables and transformed variables (with names constructed from the TPREFIX= option and the original variable names) are included in the output data set.

SCORES

SCO

includes principal component scores in the output data set. By default, scores are not included.

SINGULAR=n

SIN=n

specifies the largest value within rounding error of zero. By default, SINGULAR=1E-8. The PRINQUAL procedure uses the value of the SINGULAR= option for checking (1-R²) when constructing full rank matrices of predictor variables, checking denominators before dividing, and so on.

STANDARD

STD

standardizes the principal component scores in the output data set to mean zero and variance one instead of the default mean zero and variance equal to the corresponding eigenvalue. See the SCORES option.

TPREFIX=name

TPR=name

specifies a prefix for naming the transformed variables. By default, TPREFIX=T. The TPREFIX= option is ignored if you specify the REPLACE option.

TSTANDARD=CENTER | NOMISS | ORIGINAL | Z

TST=CEN | NOM | ORI | Z

specifies the standardization of the transformed variables in the OUT= data set. By default, TSTANDARD=ORIGINAL. When the TSTANDARD= option is specified in the PROC statement, it specifies the default standardization for all variables. When you specify TSTANDARD= as a t-option, it overrides the default standardization just for selected variables.

CENTER

centers the output variables to mean zero, but the variances are the same as the variances of the input variables.

NOMISS

sets the means and variances of the transformed variables in the OUT= data set, computed over all output values that correspond to nonmissing values in the input data set, to the means and variances computed from the nonmissing observations of the original variables. The TSTANDARD=NOMISS specification is useful with missing data. When a variable is linearly transformed, the final variable contains the original nonmissing values and the missing value estimates. In other words, the nonmissing values are unchanged. If your data have no missing values, TSTANDARD=NOMISS and TSTANDARD=ORIGINAL produce the same results.

ORIGINAL

sets the means and variances of the transformed variables to the means and variances of the original variables. This is the default.

Z

standardizes the variables to mean zero, variance one.

For nonoptimal variable transformations, the means and variances of the original variables are actually the means and variances of the nonlinearly transformed variables, unless you specify the ORIGINAL nonoptimal t-option in the TRANSFORM statement. For example, if a variable X with no missing values is specified as LOG, then, by default, the final transformation of X is simply LOG(X), not LOG(X) standardized to the mean of X and variance of X.

TYPE='text '|name

TYP='text '|name

specifies the valid value for the _TYPE_ variable in the input data set. If PROC PRINQUAL finds an input _TYPE_ variable, it uses only observations with a _TYPE_ value that matches the TYPE= value. This enables a PROC PRINQUAL OUT= data set containing correlations to be used as input to PROC PRINQUAL without requiring a WHERE statement to exclude the correlations. If a _TYPE_ variable is not in the data set, all observations are used. The default is TYPE='SCORE', so if you do not specify the TYPE= option, only observations with _TYPE_ = 'SCORE' are used.

PROC PRINQUAL displays a note when it reads observations with blank values of _TYPE_, but it does not automatically exclude those observations. Data sets created by the TRANSREG and PRINQUAL procedures have blank _TYPE_ values for those observations that were excluded from the analysis due to nonpositive weights, nonpositive frequencies, or missing data. When these observations are read again, they are excluded for the same reason that they were excluded from their original analysis, not because their _TYPE_ value is blank.

UNTIE=two-letters

UNT=two-letters

specifies the first and last special missing value in the list of those special missing values that are to be estimated with within-variable order constraints but no category constraints. The two-letters value must consist of two letters in alphabetical order. By default, there are category constraints but no order constraints on special missing value estimates. For details, see the "Missing Values" section. Also, see "Optimal Scaling" in Chapter 56, "The TRANSREG Procedure."

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