The GAM Procedure
- Overview
- Getting Started
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Syntax
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Details
Missing Values Nonparametric Regression Additive Models and Generalized Additive Models Forms of Additive Models Estimates from PROC GAM Backfitting and Local Scoring Algorithms Smoothers Selection of Smoothing Parameters Confidence Intervals for Smoothers Distribution Family and Canonical Link Dispersion Parameter Computational Resources ODS Table Names ODS Graphics
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Examples
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| CLASS Statement |
> </options>The CLASS statement names the classification variables to be used in the analysis. The CLASS statement must precede the MODEL statement. You can specify various options for each variable by enclosing them in parentheses after the variable name. You can also specify global options for the CLASS statement by placing them after a slash (/). Global options are applied to all the variables specified in the CLASS statement. If you specify more than one CLASS statement, the global options specified on any one CLASS statement apply to all CLASS statements. However, individual CLASS variable options override the global options.
- DESCENDING
- DESC
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reverses the sorting order of the classification variable. If both the DESCENDING and ORDER= options are specified, PROC GAM orders the categories according to the ORDER= option and then reverses that order.
- ORDER=DATA | FORMATTED | FREQ | INTERNAL
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specifies the sorting order for the categories of categorical variables. This ordering determines which parameters in the model correspond to each level in the data. When the default ORDER=FORMATTED is in effect for numeric variables for which you have supplied no explicit format, the levels are ordered by their internal values. The following table shows how PROC GAM interprets values of the ORDER= option.
Value of ORDER=
Levels Sorted By
DATA
Order of appearance in the input data set
FORMATTED
External formatted value, except for numeric variables with no explicit format, which are sorted by their unformatted (internal) value
FREQ
Descending frequency count; levels with the most observations come first in the order
INTERNAL
Unformatted value
By default, ORDER=FORMATTED. For FORMATTED and INTERNAL, the sort order is machine-dependent. For more information on sorting order, see the chapter on the SORT procedure in the SAS Procedures Guide and the discussion of BY-group processing in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.
- TRUNCATE<=n>
specifies the length
of CLASS variable values to use in determining CLASS variable levels. If you specify TRUNCATE without the length , the first 16 characters of the formatted values are used. When formatted values are longer than 16 characters, you can use this option to revert to the levels as determined in releases previous to SAS 9. The default is to use the full formatted length of the CLASS variable. The TRUNCATE option is available only as a global option.