Note: See Saving Decision Limits Using ANOM Charts for Means in the SAS/QC Sample Library.
You can save the decision limits for an ANOM chart, together with the parameters used to compute the limits, in a SAS data set.
The following statements read measurements from the data set LabelDeviations
(see the section Creating ANOM Charts for Means from Response Values) and save the decision limits displayed in Figure 4.22 in a data set named LabelLimits
:
proc anom data=LabelDeviations; xchart Deviation*Position / outlimits=LabelLimits nochart; run;
The OUTLIMITS= option names the data set containing the decision limits, and the NOCHART option suppresses the display of
the chart. The data set LabelLimits
is listed in Figure 4.26.
Figure 4.26: The Data Set LabelLimits Containing Decision Limit Information
Decision Limits for Labler Position Deviations |
_VAR_ | _GROUP_ | _TYPE_ | _LIMITN_ | _ALPHA_ | _LDLX_ | _MEAN_ | _UDLX_ | _MSE_ | _DFE_ | _LIMITK_ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Deviation | Position | ESTIMATE | 10 | 0.05 | -.009878975 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | .000643646 | 54 | 6 |
The data set LabelLimits
contains one observation with the limits for response Deviation
. The values of _LDLX_
and _UDLX_
are the lower and upper decision limits for the means, and the value of _MEAN_
is the weighted average of the group means, which is represented by the central line.
The values of _MEAN_
, _MSE_
, _DFE_
, _LIMITN_
, _LIMITK_
, and _ALPHA_
are the parameters used to compute the decision limits as described in the section Constructing ANOM Charts for Means. The value of _MSE_
is the mean square error, and the value of _DFE_
is the associated degrees of freedom. The value of _LIMITN_
is the nominal sample size (n) associated with the decision limits, the value of _LIMITK_
is the number of groups (k), and the value of _ALPHA_
is the value of the significance level (). The variables _VAR_
and _GROUP_
are bookkeeping variables that save the response and group-variable. The variable _TYPE_
is a bookkeeping variable that indicates whether the values of _MEAN_
and _MSE_
are estimates computed from the data or standard (known) values specified with procedure options. In most applications, the
value of _TYPE_
will be 'ESTIMATE.'
Note: See Saving Summary Statistics & Decision Limits Using ANOM Charts in the SAS/QC Sample Library.
You can create an output data set containing both decision limits and group summary statistics with the OUTTABLE= option, as illustrated by the following statements:
proc anom data=LabelDeviations; xchart Deviation*Position / outtable=LabelTab nochart; run;
The data set LabelTab
is listed in Figure 4.27.
Figure 4.27: The Data Set LabelTab
Summary Statistics and Decision Limits |
_VAR_ | Position | _ALPHA_ | _LIMITN_ | _SUBN_ | _LDLX_ | _SUBX_ | _MEAN_ | _UDLX_ | _EXLIM_ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Deviation | 1 | 0.05 | 10 | 10 | -.009878975 | -0.022342 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | LOWER |
Deviation | 2 | 0.05 | 10 | 10 | -.009878975 | 0.016241 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | |
Deviation | 3 | 0.05 | 10 | 10 | -.009878975 | 0.006011 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | |
Deviation | 4 | 0.05 | 10 | 10 | -.009878975 | 0.064729 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | UPPER |
Deviation | 5 | 0.05 | 10 | 10 | -.009878975 | 0.008121 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | |
Deviation | 6 | 0.05 | 10 | 10 | -.009878975 | -0.012812 | .009991333 | 0.029862 | LOWER |
This data set contains one observation for each group sample. The variables _SUBX_
and _SUBN_
contain the group means and sample sizes. The variables _LDLX_
and _UDLX_
contain the lower and upper decision limits, and the variable _MEAN_
contains the central line. The variables _VAR_
and Position
contain the response name and values of the group-variable, respectively. For more information, see the section OUTTABLE= Data Set.
An OUTTABLE= data set can be read later as a TABLE= data set. For example, the following statements read LabelTab
and display an ANOM chart (not shown here) identical to the chart in Figure 4.22:
title 'Analysis of Label Deviations'; proc anom table=LabelTab; xchart Deviation*Position; label _SUBX_ = 'Mean Deviation from Center (mm)'; run;
Because the ANOM procedure simply displays the information in a TABLE= data set, you can use TABLE= data sets to create specialized ANOM charts.
For more information, see the section TABLE= Data Set.