The HPSPLIT Procedure

TARGET Statement

TARGET variable </ option> ;

The TARGET statement names the variable whose values PROC HPSPLIT tries to predict. Missing values in the target are ignored except during scoring.

You can specify the following option:

ORDER=ordering

ensures that the target values are levelized in the specified order. You can specify one of the following values for ordering:

ASC | ASCENDING

levelizes target values in ascending order.

DESC | DESCENDING

levelizes target values in descending order. This is the default.

FMTASC | ASCFORMATTED

levelizes target values in ascending order of the formatted value.

FMTDESC | DESFORMATTED

levelizes target values in descending order of the formatted value.