Problem Note 13617: PROC MEANS/SUMMARY/TABULATE/REPORT might generate a warning in SAS® 9 related to the use of WEIGHT and STD or STDERR
The MEANS, SUMMARY, TABULATE, or REPORT procedure might generate the messages below in SAS 9 and higher if a WEIGHT statement is used and the STD or STDERR statistics are requested:
WARNING: An error has occurred while adjusting the second moment for
variable xxx.
NOTE: The affected statistics will be missing from the corresponding
classification levels.
WARNING: Overflow has occurred while summing the first moment for
the variable xxx.
In addition, PROC TABULATE might issue the following error messages:
ERROR: Invalid Operation
ERROR: Termination due to Floating Point Exception.
This problem is memory related and can be circumvented by removing the WEIGHT statement and/or the STD or STDERR statistics.
The expected behavior is to generate the warning below. Sometimes this
warning is caused by a value that is out of range from the other values.
WARNING: An error has occurred while adjusting the second moment for
variable xxx.
The fix provided below addresses the overflow and invalid operation messages.
A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_prod_list.html#013617
For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
fix should be downloaded from:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_dbcs_prod_list.html#013617
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| z/OS | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
| AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
The MEANS, SUMMARY, TABULATE, or REPORT procedure might generate a warning in SAS® 9 related to the use of WEIGHT and STD or STDERR.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2005-08-02 15:10:02 |
| Date Created: | 2004-10-14 11:04:20 |
