The HPDMDB Procedure

CLASS variable (<order-option>) <variable (<order-option>)> … ;

The CLASS statement specifies the variables whose values define subgroup combinations for the analysis.

The CLASS and VAR statements are mutually exclusive.

variable: specifies a classification variable to be used in the analysis. For each level of a CLASS variable, the CLASSOUT data set contains information about each of the following: the level value, its frequency, and the type of the variable (numeric or character).

order-option

specifies the order to use when considering the levels of CLASS variables to be sorted. The value of order-option can be one of the following:

ASCENDING | ASC: arranges class levels in lowest-to-highest order of unformatted values.
DESCENDING | DESC: arranges class levels in highest-to-lowest order of unformatted values.
ASCFORMATTED | ASCFMT: arranges class levels in ascending order by their formatted values.
DESFORMATTED | DESFMT: arranges class levels in descending order by their formatted values.
DSORDER | DATA: arranges class levels according to the order of their appearance in the input data set.

Note: The DSORDER sort option is not supported for input data sets that are stored on the SAS appliance.