- obtains approximate estimates of the pooled within-cluster covariance matrix when
the clusters are assumed to be multivariate normal with equal covariance matrices
- neither cluster membership nor the number of clusters needs to be known
- useful for preprocessing data to be subsequently clustered by the CLUSTER or FASTCLUS procedure
- obtain separate analyses on observations in groups
- perform weighted analysis
- uses ODS to create a SAS data set corresponding to any table
For further details see the SAS/STAT User's Guide:
The ACECLUS Procedure
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