PROC HPMIXED Statement Options

Enter SAS PROC HPMIXED statement options in this field to override default parameters.

You can specify any PROC HPMIXED option using the following syntax:

Option

where:

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Option is the PROC HPMIXED option, and

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a space is used to delimit individual conditions.

Examples of commonly used PROC HPMIXED options are listed in the following table:

Option	Definition
METHOD=n	Specifies the estimation method for the covariance parameters.
NAMELEN=	Specifies the length to which long effect names are shortened. The default and minimum value is 20.
ORDER=n	Determines the order in which to sort the levels of the class variables
SINGCHOL=	Tunes the singularity criterion in Cholesky decompositions. The default is 1E6 times the machine epsilon; this product is approximately 1E10 on most computers
SIMPLE	Displays "Descriptive Statistics" table that includes mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, minimum, and maximum for each variable used in PROC HPMIXED that is not a classification variable.

To Specify One or More PROC HPMIXED Options:

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Type specific PROC HPMIXED options in the PROC HPMIXED Statement Options field.

For example, to specify that names be restricted to 10 characters, type NAMELEN=10 in the text field, as shown below:

For Additional Information

Refer to the SAS PROC HPMIXED documentation for more information.