Problem Note 52296: The MCMC procedure ends abnormally when you specify the DIC option and a RANDOM statement
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PROC MCMC terminates abnormally when you specify the DIC option in the procedure statement and one or more RANDOM statements are also specified. The following messages are issued to the log:
ERROR: An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
The SAS task name is [MCMC]
ERROR: Read Access Violation MCMC
There is no circumvention for this problem.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 13.1 | |||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 13.1 | |||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 9.4 TS1M2 | |||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 13.1 | |||||
| Windows Vista | 13.1 | |||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 13.1 | |||||
A fix for this issue for SAS/STAT 13.1_M1 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/M72.html#52296
PROC MCMC terminates with errors when you request the deviance information criterion and you also specify a random effect.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Analytics ==> Bayesian Analysis SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> MCMC |
| Date Modified: | 2016-06-30 12:12:34 |
| Date Created: | 2014-02-10 14:53:53 |