Problem Note 69352: The SEVERITY procedure might stop processing when you specify a LOSS statement without a response variable
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When you specify a LOSS statement without a response variable and you specify censoring or truncation options in PROC SEVERITY, SAS® stops processing and returns one of the following errors:
ERROR: An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
The SAS task name is [SEVERITY]
ERROR: Read Access Violation SEVERITY
Exception occurred at (2D0BE392)
Task Traceback
ERROR: Read Access Violation SEVERITY
Exception occurred at (2D0BE392)
Task Traceback
ERROR: Error encountered while loading or preparing the data.
To circumvent the problem, specify a response variable in the LOSS statement.
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/ETS | z/OS | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 12.3 | 15.3 | 9.4 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M8 | ||
Viya on Linux: An update for this issue is available for SAS Viya 3.5. For instructions on how to access and apply software updates, see the Updating Your SAS Viya software section in the SAS Viya 3.5 for Linux Deployment Guide at
http://documentation.sas.com/?softwareId=administration&softwareVersion=3.5&softwareContextId=softwareUpdatesA fix for this issue for SAS/ETS 15.2 is available at:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/J4K.html#69352
When you omit the response or loss variable from the LOSS statement and you specify censoring or truncation options in PROC SEVERITY, SAS® stops processing and returns errors.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> SEVERITY Analytics ==> Distribution Analysis Analytics ==> Econometrics |
| Date Modified: | 2022-07-01 09:37:51 |
| Date Created: | 2022-06-28 09:50:33 |