The VARCLUS Procedure

OUTSTAT= Data Set

The OUTSTAT= data set is TYPE=CORR, and it can be used as input to the SCORE procedure or a subsequent run of PROC VARCLUS. The OUSTAT= data set contains the following variables:

• BY variables

• _NCL_, a numeric variable that gives the number of clusters

• _TYPE_, a character variable that indicates the type of statistic the observation contains

• _NAME_, a character variable that contains a variable name or a cluster name, which is of the form CLUSn, where n is the number of the cluster

• the variables that are clustered

The values of the _TYPE_ variable are listed in the following table.

The observations with _TYPE_='MEAN', 'STD', 'N', and 'CORR' have missing values for the _NCL_ variable. All other values of the _TYPE_ variable are repeated for each cluster solution, with different solutions distinguished by the value of the _NCL_ variable. If you want to specify the OUTSTAT= data set with the SCORE procedure, you can use a DATA step to select observations with the _NCL_ variable missing or equal to the desired number of clusters as follows:

data Coef2;
   set Coef;
   if _ncl_ = . or _ncl_ = 3;
   drop _ncl_;
run;

proc score data=NewScore score=Coef2; run;

PROC SCORE standardizes the new data by subtracting the original variable means that are stored in the _TYPE_='MEAN' observations and dividing by the original variable standard deviations from the _TYPE_='STD' observations. Then PROC SCORE multiplies the standardized variables by the coefficients from the _TYPE_='SCORE' observations to get the cluster scores.

OUTTREE= Data Set

The OUTTREE= data set contains one observation for each variable clustered plus one observation for each cluster of two or more variables—that is, one observation for each node of the cluster tree. The total number of output observations is between n and , where n is the number of variables clustered.

The OUTTREE= data set contains the following variables:

• BY variables, if any

• _NAME_, a character variable that gives the name of the node. If the node is a cluster, the name is CLUSn, where n is the number of the cluster. If the node is a single variable, the variable name is used.

• _PARENT_, a character variable that gives the value of _NAME_ of the parent of the node. If the node is the root of the tree, _PARENT_ is blank.

• _LABEL_, a character variable that gives the label of the node. If the node is a cluster, the label is CLUSn, where n is the number of the cluster. If the node is a single variable, the variable label is used.

• _NCL_, the number of clusters

• _VAREXP_, the total variance explained by the clusters at the current level of the tree

• _PROPOR_, the total proportion of variance explained by the clusters at the current level of the tree

• _MINPRO_, the minimum proportion of variance explained by a cluster component

• _MAXEIG_, the maximum second eigenvalue of a cluster