The SURVEYREG Procedure

sets the confidence level for confidence limits. The value of the ALPHA= option must be between 0 and 1, and the default value is 0.05. A confidence level of produces % confidence limits. The default of ALPHA=0.05 produces 95% confidence limits.

specifies the SAS data set to be analyzed by PROC SURVEYREG. If you omit the DATA= option, the procedure uses the most recently created SAS data set.

treats missing values as a valid (nonmissing) category for all categorical variables, which include CLASS , STRATA , CLUSTER , and DOMAIN variables.

By default, if you do not specify the MISSING option, an observation is excluded from the analysis if it has a missing value. For more information, see the section Missing Values.

specifies the length of effect names in tables and output data sets to be n characters, where n is a value between 40 and 200. The default length is 40 characters.

requests that the procedure treat missing values in the variance computation as not missing completely at random (NOMCAR) for Taylor series variance estimation. When you specify the NOMCAR option, PROC SURVEYREG computes variance estimates by analyzing the nonmissing values as a domain or subpopulation, where the entire population includes both nonmissing and missing domains. See the section Missing Values for more details.

By default, PROC SURVEYREG completely excludes an observation from analysis if that observation has a missing value, unless you specify the MISSING option. Note that the NOMCAR option has no effect on a classification variable when you specify the MISSING option, which treats missing values as a valid nonmissing level.

The NOMCAR option applies only to Taylor series variance estimation. The replication methods, which you request with the VARMETHOD=BRR and VARMETHOD=JACKKNIFE options, do not use the NOMCAR option.

specifies the sort order for the levels of the classification variables (which are specified in the CLASS statement).

This option also determines the sort order for the levels of DOMAIN variables.

This option applies to the levels for all classification variables, except when you use the (default) ORDER=FORMATTED option with numeric classification variables that have no explicit format. In that case, the levels of such variables are ordered by their internal value.

The ORDER= option can take the following values:

By default, ORDER=FORMATTED. For ORDER=FORMATTED and ORDER=INTERNAL, the sort order is machine-dependent.

For more information about sort order, see the chapter on the SORT procedure in the Base SAS Procedures Guide and the discussion of BY-group processing in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

controls the plots that are produced through ODS Graphics.

When ODS Graphics is enabled and when the regression model depends on at most one continuous variable as a regressor, excluding the intercept, the PLOTS= option in the PROC SURVEYREG statement controls fit plots for the regression.

A plot-request identifies the plot, and a plot-option controls the appearance and content of the plot. You can specify plot-options in parentheses after a plot-request. A global-plot-option applies to all plots for which it is available unless it is altered by a specific plot-option. You can specify global-plot-options in parentheses after the PLOTS option.

When you specify only one plot-request, you can omit the parentheses around it. Here are a few examples of requesting plots:

plots=all
plots(weight=heatmap)=fit

When the regression model depends on at most one continuous variable as a regressor, excluding the intercept, PROC SURVEYREG provides a bubble plot or a heat map for model fitting. In a bubble plot, the bubble area is proportional to the weight of an observation. In a heat map, the heat color represents the sum of the weights at the corresponding location. The default plot depends on the number of observations in your data. That is, for a data set that contains 100 observations or less, a bubble plot is the default. For a data set that contains more than 100 observations, a heat map is the default.

ODS Graphics must be enabled before you can request a plot. For example:

ods graphics on;
proc surveyreg plots=fit;
   model height=weight;
run;

For more information about enabling and disabling ODS Graphics, see the section Enabling and Disabling ODS Graphics in Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS.

When ODS Graphics is enabled, the ESTIMATE , LSMEANS , LSMESTIMATE , and SLICE statements can produce plots that are associated with their analyses. For information about these plots, see the corresponding sections of Chapter 19: Shared Concepts and Topics.

For general information about ODS Graphics, see Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS.

Global Plot Option

A global-plot-option applies to all plots for which the option is available unless it is altered by a specific plot-option. You can specify the following global-plot-options:

Plot Requests

You can specify the following plot-requests:

specifies the sampling rate as a nonnegative value, or specifies an input data set that contains the stratum sampling rates. The procedure uses this information to compute a finite population correction for Taylor series variance estimation. The procedure does not use the RATE= option for BRR or jackknife variance estimation, which you request with the VARMETHOD=BRR or VARMETHOD=JACKKNIFE option.

If your sample design has multiple stages, you should specify the first-stage sampling rate, which is the ratio of the number of PSUs selected to the total number of PSUs in the population.

For a nonstratified sample design, or for a stratified sample design with the same sampling rate in all strata, you should specify a nonnegative value for the RATE= option. If your design is stratified with different sampling rates in the strata, then you should name a SAS data set that contains the stratification variables and the sampling rates. See the section Specification of Population Totals and Sampling Rates for more details.

The value in the RATE= option or the values of _RATE_ in the secondary data set must be nonnegative numbers. You can specify value as a number between 0 and 1. Or you can specify value in percentage form as a number between 1 and 100, and PROC SURVEYREG converts that number to a proportion. The procedure treats the value 1 as 100%, and not the percentage form 1%.

If you do not specify the TOTAL= or RATE= option, then the Taylor series variance estimation does not include a finite population correction. You cannot specify both the TOTAL= and RATE= options.

specifies the total number of primary sampling units in the study population as a positive value, or specifies an input data set that contains the stratum population totals. The procedure uses this information to compute a finite population correction for Taylor series variance estimation. The procedure does not use the TOTAL= option for BRR or jackknife variance estimation, which you request with the VARMETHOD=BRR or VARMETHOD=JACKKNIFE option.

For a nonstratified sample design, or for a stratified sample design with the same population total in all strata, you should specify a positive value for the TOTAL= option. If your sample design is stratified with different population totals in the strata, then you should name a SAS data set that contains the stratification variables and the population totals. See the section Specification of Population Totals and Sampling Rates for more details.

If you do not specify the TOTAL= or RATE= option, then the Taylor series variance estimation does not include a finite population correction. You cannot specify both the TOTAL= and RATE= options.

specifies that class levels should be determined using no more than the first 16 characters of the formatted values of the CLASS, STRATA, and CLUSTER variables. When formatted values are longer than 16 characters, you can use this option in order to revert to the levels as determined in releases before SAS 9.

specifies the variance estimation method. VARMETHOD=TAYLOR requests the Taylor series method, which is the default if you do not specify the VARMETHOD= option or the REPWEIGHTS statement. VARMETHOD=BRR requests variance estimation by balanced repeated replication (BRR), and VARMETHOD=JACKKNIFE requests variance estimation by the delete-1 jackknife method.

For VARMETHOD=BRR and VARMETHOD=JACKKNIFE you can specify method-options in parentheses. Table 114.3 summarizes the available method-options.

Method-options must be enclosed in parentheses following the method keyword. For example:

varmethod=BRR(reps=60 outweights=myReplicateWeights)

The following values are available for the VARMETHOD= option: