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SAS/QC(R) 9.2 User's Guide


PROC CAPABILITY and General Statements

Summary of Options

The following tables list all the PROC CAPABILITY options by function.

Table 10.1: Input Data Set Options
Option Description
ANNOTATE=SAS-data-setspecifies input data set containing annotation information
DATA=SAS-data-setspecifies input data set
EXCLNPWGTspecifies that non-positive weights are to be excluded
NOBYSPECSspecifies that specification limits in SPEC= data set are to be applied to all BY groups
SPEC=SAS-data-setspecifies input data set with specification limits

Table 10.2: Plotting and Graphics Options
Option Description
FORMCHAR(index)='string'defines characters used for features on plots
GOUT=graphics-catalogspecifies catalog for saving graphical output
LINEPRINTERrequests line printer plots

Table 10.3: Computational Options
Option Description
PCTLDEF=nspecifies definition used to calculate percentiles
ROUND=round-unitsspecifies units used to round variable values
VARDEF=keywordspecifies divisor used to calculate variances and standard deviations

Table 10.4: Data Summary Options
Option Description
ALLrequests all tables
FREQrequests frequency table
MODESrequests table of modes
NEXTROBS=nrequests table of n lowest, n highest observations
NEXTRVAL=nrequests table of n lowest, n highest values

Table 10.5: Output Options
Option Description
NOPRINTsuppresses printed output
OUTTABLE=SAS-data-setcreates an output data set containing univariate statistics and capability indices in tabular form

Table 10.6: Hypothesis Testing Options
Option Description
MU0=valuespecifies mean for null hypothesis in tests for location
LOCCOUNTrequests table of counts used in sign test and signed rank test
NORMALTESTperforms tests for normality

Table 10.7: Robust Estimation Options
Option Description
ROBUSTSCALErequests table of robust measures of scale
TRIMMED=(trimmed -options)requests table of trimmed means
WINSORIZED=(Winsorized -options)requests table of Winsorized means

Table 10.8: TRIMMED-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| TWOSIDEDspecifies type of confidence limit

Table 10.9: WINSORIZED-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| TWOSIDEDspecifies type of confidence limit

Table 10.10: Capability Index Options
Option Description
CPMA=a(obsolete) specifies a for Cpm(a)
CHECKINDICES (checkindices-options)requests test of normality in conjunction with standard indices
SPECIALINDICESrequests table of specialized indices including Boyles' c_{pm}, c_{jkp}, c_{pmk}, c_{pm}(a), and Wright's c_s

Table 10.11: CHECKINDICES-Options
Option Description
TEST=SW|KS|AD|CVM| NONEspecifies test for normality (Shapiro-Wilk, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Anderson-Darling, Cramér-von Mises, or no test)

Table 10.12: Confidence Limit Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies level for all confidence limits
CIBASIC (cibasic-options)requests confidence limits for the mean, standard deviation, variance
CIINDICES (ciindices-options)specifies level and type of confidence limits for capability indices
CIPCTLDF ( cipctldf-options )requests distribution-free confidence limits for percentiles
CIPCTLNORMAL (cipctlnormal-options)requests confidence limits for percentiles assuming normality
CIPROBEX (ciprobex-options )requests confidence limits for the probability of exceeding specifications

Table 10.13: CIBASIC-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| TWOSIDEDspecifies type of confidence limit

Table 10.14: CIINDICES-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| TWOSIDEDspecifies type of confidence limit

Table 10.15: CIPCTLDF-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| SYMMETRIC| ASYMMETRICspecifies type of confidence limit

Table 10.16: CIPCTLNORMAL-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| TWOSIDEDspecifies type of confidence limit

Table 10.17: CIPROBEX-Options
Option Description
ALPHA=valuespecifies confidence level
TYPE=LOWER|UPPER| TWOSIDEDspecifies type of confidence limit