The HPSPLIT Procedure

TARGET Statement

  • TARGET variable </ options>;

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 options:

LEVEL=INT | NOM

specifies whether the specified target variable is interval or nominal.

INT

treats the target as an interval variable and creates a regression tree.

NOM

treats the target as a nominal variable and creates a decision tree.

By default, PROC HPSPLIT creates a decision tree (nominal target).

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.