The RELIABILITY Procedure

ODS Graphics

SAS/QC procedures use ODS Graphics functionality to create graphs as part of their output. ODS Graphics is described in detail in Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS in SAS/STAT 12.1 User's Guide.

Before you create graphs, ODS Graphics must be enabled. For example:

ods graphics on;

proc reliability;
   probplot y;
run;

ods graphics off;

For more information about enabling and disabling ODS Graphics, see Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS in SAS/STAT 12.1 User's Guide.

See Chapter 3: SAS/QC Graphics, for alternative methods of creating graphics with PROC RELIABILITY. See the section Analysis of Right-Censored Data from a Single Population for an example that uses ODS Graphics in PROC RELIABILITY to create a probability plot and the section ODS Graph Names for ODS Graphics table names.

ODS Graph Names

If ODS Graphics is enabled (for example, with the ODS GRAPHICS ON statement), PROC RELIABILITY creates graphs by using ODS Graphics. You can reference every graph produced through ODS Graphics with a name. The names of the graphs that PROC RELIABILITY generates are listed in Table 16.80, along with the required statements and options.

Table 16.80: Graphs Produced by PROC RELIABILITY

ODS Graph Name

Description

Statement

Option

IntensityPlot

Plot of intensity function for NHPP model

MCFPLOT

Fit=MODEL

IntensityPlots

Plot of intensity functions for NHPP model for multiple groups

MCFPLOT

Fit=MODEL

MCFDiffPlot

Plot of mean cumulative function differences

MCFPLOT

MCFDIFF

MCFPlot

Plot of mean cumulative function plot for single population

MCFPLOT

Default

MCFPlotPanel

Plot of mean cumulative function plots for multiple groups

MCFPLOT

Group variable

ProbabilityPlot

Probability plot for single population

PROBPLOT

Default

ProbabilityPlotFM

Probability plot with failure modes

PROBPLOT

FMODE

ProbabilityPlotPanel

Probability plots for multiple groups

PROBPLOT

Group variable

PercentilePlot

Plot of model percentiles

RELATIONPLOT

Default

RelationPlot

Plot of model percentiles with probability plot

RELATIONPLOT

PPLOT