- WEIGHT variable </option> ;
The variable in the WEIGHT statement identifies the variable in the input data set that contains the case weights. When the WEIGHT statement appears, each observation in the input data set is weighted by the value of the WEIGHT variable. The WEIGHT values can be nonintegral and are not truncated. Observations with negative, zero, or missing values for the WEIGHT variable are not used in the model fitting. When the WEIGHT statement is not specified, each observation is assigned a weight of 1. The WEIGHT statement is available for TIES=BRESLOW and TIES=EFRON only.
The following option can be specified in the WEIGHT statement after a slash (/):
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NORMALIZE
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NORM
causes the weights specified by the WEIGHT variable to be normalized so that they add up the actual sample size. With this option, the estimated covariance matrix of the parameter estimators is invariant to the scale of the WEIGHT variable.
