The HPPRINCOMP Procedure
The HPPRINCOMP procedure and the PRINCOMP procedure in SAS/STAT have the following similarities and differences:
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All statements that are available in PROC PRINCOMP are supported by the HPPRINCOMP procedure.
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PROC PRINCOMP can accept ordinary SAS data set and other types of special SAS data sets as input. The HPPRINCOMP procedure can accept only the ordinary SAS data set (raw data) as input.
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This release of the HPPRINCOMP procedure does not support the PLOTS option that is available in PROC PRINCOMP.
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The HPPRINCOMP procedure is specifically designed to operate in the high-performance distributed environment. By default, PROC HPPRINCOMP performs computations on multiple threads. The PRINCOMP procedure executes on a single thread.