Problem Note 54446: Observations in the OUTKERNEL= data set are duplicated when more than one output destination is specified
When the KERNEL and OUTKERNEL= options are specified in the HISTOGRAM statement in PROC UNIVARIATE, and the following conditions are also met:
- the NOPLOT option is not specified in the HISTOGRAM statement
- ODS Graphics is disabled
- more than one ODS destination is open
then each observation in the OUTKERNEL= output data set is duplicated. The entire set of output observations is written once per output destination. The correct output data set should contain one occurence of each output observation.
To circumvent this problem, add the NOPLOT option or close all but one output destination.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/STAT | z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M3 |
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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 OUTKERNEL= data in PROC UNIVARIATE is written once per open output
destination.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | Analytics ==> Distribution Analysis
SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> UNIVARIATE
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| Date Modified: | 2014-12-04 13:33:18 |
| Date Created: | 2014-10-24 13:47:51 |
