Optional Arguments

DATA=input-map-data-set

identifies the map data set that you want to process. By default, the procedure uses the most recently created SAS data set.

See:About the Input Map Data Set and SAS Data Sets

E1=min-distance

E2=min-distance

E3=min-distance

E4=min-distance

E5=min-distance

specify the minimum distance that a point must lie from a straight line segment to be included at density level 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, respectively. That is, in a reduced curve of three points, the middle point is at least a distance that is min-distance from a straight line between the two outside points.

Express min-distance values in the units for the coordinate system of the input map data set. For example, if the input map data set contains coordinates that are expressed in radians, express the min-distance values in radians.

Specify the En= values in decreasing order. For example, the E2= value should be less than the E1= value, and so on.

N1=max-points

N2=max-points

N3=max-points

N4=max-points

N5=max-points

specify that for density level 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, the boundary of a unit area should contain no more than max-points points.

Specify the Nn= values in increasing order. For example, the N2= value should be greater than or equal to the N1= value, and so on.

By default, if you omit Nn= and En = , the GREDUCE procedure calculates values for the five Nn = parameters using this formula:

Here N_max is the maximum number of points in any unit area in the input map data set. However, the restriction that the number of points for any level cannot be less than the number of points in level 0 still applies.

NOCLEAN

disables post-processing cleanup of the output data set. By default, the GREDUCE procedure post-processes the output data set to ensure that at least three vertices are present for each polygon at each density level. If you specify NOCLEAN, then shapes with only one or two points will be included in the output data set.

OUT=output-data-set

names the new map data set, which contains all of the observations and variables in the original map data set plus the new DENSITY variable. If the input map data set contains a variable named DENSITY, the GREDUCE procedure replaces the values of the variable in the output map data set. The original values of the DENSITY variable from the input map data set are not included in the output map data set.

By default, the GREDUCE procedure names the new data set that uses the DATAn naming convention. That is, the procedure uses the name WORK.DATAn, where n is the next unused number in sequence. Thus, the first automatically named data set is DATA1, the second is DATA2, and so on.