The HPCDM Procedure (Experimental)

OUTPUT Statement

OUTPUT OUT=SAS-data-set <variable-name-options> </ out-option> ;

The OUTPUT statement enables you to specify the data set to output the generated compound distribution sample.

If you specify more than one OUTPUT statement, only the first one is used.

You must specify the output data set by using the following option:

OUT=SAS-data-set OUTSAMPLE=SAS-data-set: specifies the output data set to contain the simulated compound distribution sample. If you specify programming statements to adjust individual severity values, then this data set contains both unadjusted and adjusted samples.

You can specify the following variable-name-options to control the names of the variables created in the OUT= data set:

ADJSAMPLEVAR=variable-name

specifies the name of the variable to contain the adjusted compound distribution sample in the OUT= data set. If you do not specify ADJSAMPLEVAR= option, then “_AGGADJSEV_” is used by default.

This option is ignored if you do not specify the ADJUSTEDSEVERITY= option and the programming statements to adjust the simulated severity values.

SAMPLEVAR=variable-name

specifies the name of the variable to contain the simulated sample in the OUT= data set. If you do not specify SAMPLEVAR= option, then “_AGGSEV_” is used by default.

Further, you can request that the perturbed samples be written to the OUT= data set by specifying the following out-option:

PERTURBOUT: specifies that all the perturbed samples be written to the OUT= data set. Each perturbed sample is identified by the _DRAWID_ variable in the OUT= data set. A value of 0 for the _DRAWID_ variable indicates an unperturbed sample.

Separate compound distribution samples are generated for each combination of specified severity and frequency models. The _SEVERITYMODEL_ and _COUNTMODEL_ columns in the OUT= data set identify the severity and frequency models, respectively, that are used to generate the sample in the SAMPLEVAR= and ADJSAMPLEVAR= variables.