Usage Note 62247: PROC SURVEYMEANS domain quantile standard errors differ from previous SAS® releases
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Beginning in SAS® 9.4 TS1M3 (SAS/STAT 14.1), PROC SURVEYMEANS uses a new default method for obtaining variance estimates for quantiles when VARMETHOD=BRR or VARMETHOD=JK. Because of this change, quantile standard errors can be different from those computed using an earlier release.
The previous naïve replication variance estimate for a quantile is obtained by applying replication methods directly to the quantile. To improve the performance, a smoothing method is used to modify the quantile estimates for each replicate before using the naïve variance estimate.
You can specify the method-option NAIVEQVAR to reproduce the variance estimates obtained from an earlier release. Specify the option in parentheses following the method, such as VARMETHOD=BRR(NAIVEQVAR) or VARMETHOD=JK(NAIVEQVAR).
For details about both the naïve and improved variance computations, see Statistical Computations in the Details section of the PROC SURVEYMEANS documentation in the SAS/STAT User’s Guide.
Operating System and Release Information
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| SAS System | SAS/STAT | Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | ||||
| OS/2 | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | ||||
| OpenVMS VAX | ||||
| z/OS 64-bit | ||||
| z/OS | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | ||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | ||||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | ||||
| Windows Vista | ||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | ||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | ||||
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | ||||
| AIX | ||||
| HP-UX | ||||
| HP-UX IPF | ||||
| IRIX | ||||
| Linux | ||||
| Linux for x64 | ||||
| Linux on Itanium | ||||
| OpenVMS Alpha | ||||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | ||||
| Solaris | ||||
| Solaris for x64 | ||||
| Tru64 UNIX | ||||