Index_N | SAS/STAT 9.1 Users Guide, Volumes 1-7

N

N option

OUTPUT statement (FREQ), 1448

N= option

EXACT statement (FREQ), 1445

EXACT statement (NPAR1WAY), 3160

FACTOR statement (CALIS), 607

PROC ACECLUS statement, 405

PROC PRINCOMP statement, 3605

PROC PRINQUAL statement, 3655

PROC SURVEYLOGISTIC statement, 4252

PROC SURVEYMEANS statement, 4326

PROC SURVEYREG statement, 4374

NAME statement

TREE procedure, 4756

name-lists

POWER procedure, 3490

NAME= option

MODEL statement (TRANSREG), 4571

PLOT statement (BOXPLOT), 504

PLOT statement (GLMPOWER), 1945

PLOT statement (POWER), 3487

PLOT statement (REG), 3847

PROC TREE statement, 4752

TRANSFORM statement (PRINQUAL), 3666

NAMELEN= option

PROC ANOVA statement, 433

PROC CATMOD statement, 829

PROC GENMOD statement, 1625

PROC GLM statement, 1746

PROC GLMMOD statement, 1914

PROC LIFEREG statement, 2090

PROC LOGISTIC statement, 2293

PROC MIXED statement, 2678

PROC PROBIT statement, 3713

PROC ROBUSTREG statement, 3983

PROC SURVEYLOGISTIC statement, 4251

NARROW option

PROC SIM2D statement, 4099

natural response rate, 3705, 3707, 3711, 3713

NBEST option

PROC ROBUSTREG statement, 3986

NBITER= option

MCMC statement (MI), 2528

NCAN= option

MODEL statement (TRANSREG), 4577

PROC CANCORR statement, 760

PROC CANDISC statement, 791

PROC DISCRIM statement, 1149

NCLUSTERS= option

PROC TREE statement, 4752

NCOVARIATES= option

POWER statement (GLMPOWER), 1940

NDIRECTIONS= option

COMPUTE statement (VARIOGRAM), 4868

nearest centroid sorting, 1380

nearest neighbor method,

See also single linkage

DISCRIM procedure, 1158, 1161

negative binomial distribution

GENMOD procedure, 1652

NLMIXED procedure, 3078

NEGATIVE option

PROC MDS statement, 2482

negative variance components

VARCOMP procedure, 4838

NEIGHBOR option

PROC MODECLUS statement, 2868

neighborhood distribution function (NDF), definition

MODECLUS procedure, 2878

Nelder-Mead simplex, 3073

nested design, 2985

error terms, 2991

generating with PLAN procedure, 3353

hypothesis tests (NESTED), 2990

nested effects

design matrix (CATMOD), 878

GENMOD procedure, 1660

MIXED procedure, 2745

model parameterization (GLM), 1789

specifying (ANOVA), 451, 453

specifying (CATMOD), 864

specifying (GLM), 1785

nested error structure

MIXED procedure, 2814

nested models

KRIGE2D procedure, 2050, 2051

VARIOGRAM procedure, 4871

NESTED procedure

analysis of covariation, 2990

compared to other procedures, 1735, 2665, 2985

computational method, 2991

input data sets, 2988

introductory example, 2986

missing values, 2990

ODS table names , 2994

random effects, 2990

syntax, 2988

unbalanced design, 2990

NESTED procedure, BY statement, 2988

NESTED procedure, CLASS statement, 2989

TRUNCATE option, 2989

NESTED procedure, PROCNESTEDstatement, 2988

AOV option, 2988

DATA= option, 2988

NESTED procedure, VAR statement, 2989

nested- by-value effects

specifying (CATMOD), 865

network algorithm, 1509, 3172

Newman-Keuls' multiple range test, 444, 1769, 1814

Newton algorithm

FASTCLUS procedure, 1392

Newton-Raphson algorithm

CALIS procedure, 578, 580, 581, 665

GENMOD procedure, 1655

iteration (PHREG), 3222

LIFEREG procedure, 2083

LOGISTIC procedure, 2317, 2318, 2336, 2338

method (PHREG), 3245

MIXED procedure, 2738

NLMIXED procedure, 3073

PROBIT procedure, 3756

SURVEYLOGISTIC procedure, 4264, 4265, 4277

NFAC= option

PROC PLS statement, 3376

NFACTORS= option

PROC FACTOR statement, 1313

NFRACTIONAL option

MULTREG statement (POWER), 3422

ONECORR statement (POWER), 3427

ONESAMPLEMEANS statement (POWER), 3434

ONEWAYANOVA statement (POWER), 3440

PAIREDFREQ statement (POWER), 3445

PAIREDMEANS statement (POWER), 3451

POWER statement (GLMPOWER), 1940

TWOSAMPLEFREQ statement (POWER), 3459

TWOSAMPLEMEANS statement (POWER), 3467

TWOSAMPLESURVIVAL statement (POWER), 3477

NFRACTIONAL= option

ONESAMPLEFREQ statement (POWER), 3430

NFULLPREDICTORS= option

MULTREG statement (POWER), 3423

NGRID= option

BIVAR statement, 1998

UNIVAR statement, 2000

NHCLASSES= option

COMPUTE statement (VARIOGRAM), 4868

NIMPUTE= option

PROC MI statement, 2520

NINTERVAL= option

PROC LIFETEST statement, 2163

NITER= option

MCMC statement (MI), 2528

PROC PLS statement, 3374

NKNOTS= option

MODEL statement (TRANSREG), 4568

TRANSFORM statement (PRINQUAL), 3666

NLAG= option

MCMC statement (MI), 2525

NLEGEND option

PLOT statement (BOXPLOT), 505

NLEVELS option

PROC FREQ statement, 1442

NLIN procedure

analytic derivatives, 3011, 3017

automatic derivatives, 3017

close-to-linear, 3019

confidence interval, 3013, 3014, 3028, 3029

convergence, 3022

convergence criterion, 3006

cross-referencing variables , 3010

debugging execution, 3008

derivatives, 3011, 3017

displayed output, 3006

G2 inverse, 3025

G4 inverse, 3008

Gauss iterative method, 3008

Gauss-Newton method, 3024, 3027

generalized inverse, 3025

gradient method, 3024, 3025

Hessian, 3026, 3030

Hougaard's measure, 3008, 3019

imposing bounds, 3010

incompatibilities, 3031, 3032

initial values, 3015

iteratively reweighted least squares example, 3038

Lagrange multiplier , 3010

Lagrange multipliers, covariance matrix, 3030

Marquardt iterative method, 3008, 3024, 3027

maximum iterations, 3008

maximum subiterations, 3008

mean square error specification, 3009

missing values, 3020

model confidence interval, 3029

model.variable syntax, 3012

Newton iterative method, 3008, 3024, 3026

object convergence measure, 3003

output table names, 3033

parameter confidence interval, 3028

parameter covariance matrix, 3029

PPC convergence measure, 3003

predicted values, output, 3014

R convergence measure, 3003

residual values, output, 3014

retaining variables, 3011, 3016

RPC convergence measure, 3003

segmented model example, 3034

singularity criterion, 3009

skewness , 3004, 3008, 3019

SMETHOD=GOLDEN step size search, 3028

special variables, 3020

standard error, 3014

steepest descent method, 3024, 3025

step size search, 3028

syntax, 3004

troubleshooting, 3022

tuning display of iteration computation, 3009

weighted regression, 3021

NLIN procedure, BOUNDS statement, 3010

NLIN procedure, BY statement, 3011

NLIN procedure, CONTROL statement, 3011

NLIN procedure, DER statement, 3011

NLIN procedure, ID statement, 3012

NLIN procedure, MODEL statement, 3012

NLIN procedure, OUTPUT statement, 3013

H= option, 3013

L95= option, 3013

L95M= option, 3013

OUT= option, 3013

PARMS= option, 3013

PREDICTED= option, 3014

RESIDUAL= option, 3014

SSE= option, 3014

STDI= option, 3014

STDP= option, 3014

STDR= option, 3014

STUDENT= option, 3014

U95= option, 3014

U95M= option, 3014

WEIGHT= option, 3014

NLIN procedure, PARAMETERS statement, 3014

NLIN procedure, PROC NLIN statement, 3005

BEST= option, 3006

CONVERGE= option, 3006

CONVERGEOBJ= option, 3007

CONVERGEPARM= option, 3007

DATA= option, 3007

FLOW option, 3008

G4 option, 3008

HOUGAARD option, 3008

LIST option, 3008

LISTALL option, 3008

LISTCODE option, 3008

LISTDEP option, 3008

LISTDER option, 3008

MAXITER= option, 3008

MAXSUBIT= option, 3008

METHOD= option, 3008

NOHALVE option, 3009

NOITPRINT option, 3009

NOPRINT option, 3009

OUTEST= option, 3009

PRINT option, 3009

RHO= option, 3009

SAVE option, 3009

SIGSQ= option, 3009

SINGULAR= option, 3009

SMETHOD= option, 3009

TAU= option, 3010

TRACE option, 3010

XREF option, 3010

NLIN procedure, program statements, 3016

NLIN procedure, RETAIN statement, 3016

NLINCON statement, CALIS procedure, 610

NLMIXED procedure, 3057

Accelerated failure time model, 3128

active set methods , 3093

adaptive Gaussian quadrature, 3084

additional estimates, 3076, 3106

alpha level, 3061

arrays, 3074

assumptions, 3083

Bernoulli distribution, 3077

binary distribution, 3077

binomial distribution, 3077

bounds, 3075

compared with other SAS procedures and macros, 3048

computational problems, 3098

computational resources, 3103

contrasts, 3076

convergence criteria, 3060, 3065, 3087

convergence problems, 3099

covariance matrix, 3061, 3101, 3106

degrees of freedom, 3062

empirical Bayes estimation, 3084

empirical Bayes options, 3062

finite differencing, 3064, 3091

first-order method, 3085

fit statistics, 3106

floating point errors, 3098

Frailty model example, 3128

functional convergence criteria, 3063

gamma distribution, 3077

Gaussian distribution, 3077

general distribution, 3078

generalized inverse, 3065

growth curve example, 3049

Hessian matrix, 3066

Hessian scaling, 3065, 3093

integral approximations, 3070, 3084

iteration history, 3067, 3104

lag functionality, 3081

Lagrange multiplier, 3093

line-search methods, 3066, 3067, 3096

logistic-normal example, 3053

long run times, 3098

maximum likelihood , 3048

negative binomial distribution, 3078

normal distribution, 3077, 3080

notation, 3083

ODS table names, 3107

optimization techniques, 3072, 3086

options summary, 3058

overflows, 3098

parameter estimates, 3106

parameter rescaling , 3098

parameter specification, 3078

pharmakokinetics example, 3107

Poisson distribution, 3078

Poisson-normal example, 3124

precision, 3101

prediction, 3079, 3102

probit-normal-binomial example, 3114

probit-normal-ordinal example, 3118

programming statements, 3081

projected gradient, 3093

projected Hessian, 3093

quadrature options, 3071

random effects, 3079

references, 3138

replicate subjects, 3080

singularity tolerances, 3072

sorting of input data set, 3062, 3079

stationary point, 3100

step length options, 3096

syntax, 3057

syntax summary, 3057

termination criteria, 3060, 3087

update methods, 3073

NLMIXED procedure, ARRAY statement, 3074

NLMIXED procedure, BOUNDS statement, 3075

NLMIXED procedure, BY statement, 3076

NLMIXED procedure, CONTRAST statement, 3076

DF= option, 3076

NLMIXED procedure, ESTIMATE statement, 3077

ALPHA= option, 3077

DF= option, 3077

NLMIXED procedure, ID statement, 3077

NLMIXED procedure, MODEL statement, 3077

NLMIXED procedure, PARMS statement, 3078

BEST= option, 3078

DATA= option, 3078

NLMIXED procedure, PREDICT statement, 3079

ALPHA= option, 3079

DER option, 3079

DF= option, 3079

NLMIXED procedure, PROC NLMIXED statement

ABSCONV= option, 3060

ABSFCONV= option, 3060

ABSGCONV= option, 3060

ABSXCONV= option, 3060

ALPHA= option, 3061

ASINGULAR= option, 3061

CFACTOR= option, 3061

CORR option, 3061

COV option, 3061

COVSING= option, 3061

DAMPSTEP option, 3061

DATA= option, 3062

DF= option, 3062

DIAHES option, 3062

EBOPT option, 3062

EBSSFRAC option, 3062

EBSSTOL option, 3062

EBSTEPS option, 3062

EBSUBSTEPS option, 3062

EBTOL option, 3062

EBZSTART option, 3062

ECORR option, 3063

ECOV option, 3063

EDER option, 3063

FCONV2= option, 3063

FCONV= option, 3063

FD= option, 3064

FDHESSIAN= option, 3064

FDIGITS= option, 3065

FLOW option, 3065

FSIZE= option, 3065

G4= option, 3065

GCONV= option, 3065

HESCAL= option, 3065

HESS option, 3066

INHESSIAN option, 3066

INSTEP= option, 3066

ITDETAILS option, 3067

LCDEACT= option, 3067

LCEPSILON= option, 3067

LCSINGULAR= option, 3067

LINESEARCH= option, 3067

LIST option, 3068

LISTCODE option, 3068

LOGNOTE option, 3068

LSPRECISION= option, 3068

MAXFUNC= option, 3069

MAXITER= option, 3069

MAXSTEP= option, 3069

MAXTIME= option, 3070

METHOD= option, 3070

MINITER= option, 3070

MSINGULAR= option, 3070

NOAD option, 3071

NOADSCALE option, 3071

OPTCHECK option, 3071

OUTQ= option, 3071

QFAC option, 3071

QMAX option, 3071

QPOINTS option, 3071

QSCALEFAC option, 3071

QTOL option, 3071

RESTART option, 3072

SEED option, 3072

SINGCHOL= option, 3072

SINGHESS= option, 3072

SINGSWEEP= option, 3072

SINGVAR option, 3072

START option, 3072

TECHNIQUE= option, 3072, 3073

TRACE option, 3073

UPDATE= option, 3073, 3074

VSINGULAR= option, 3074

XCONV= option, 3074

XSIZE= option, 3074

NLMIXED procedure, RANDOM statement, 3079

ALPHA= option, 3080

DF= option, 3080

OUT= option, 3080

NLMIXED procedure, REPLICATE statement, 3080

NLOPTIONS statement, CALIS procedure, 611

NMARKERS= option

PROC STDIZE statement, 4131

NMAX= option

PROC SURVEYSELECT statement, 4437

NMIN= option

PROC SURVEYSELECT statement, 4437

NMISS option

OUTPUT statement (FREQ), 1448

NOAD option

PROC NLMIXED statement, 3071

NOADJDF option

PROC CALIS statement, 590

NOADSCALE option

PROC NLMIXED statement, 3071

NOANOVA option

MODEL statement (RSREG), 4042

NOBOUND option

PARMS statement (MIXED), 2707

PROC MIXED statement, 2678

NOBS= option

PROC CALIS statement, 572

PROC FACTOR statement, 1313

NOBYREF option

PLOT statement (BOXPLOT), 505

NOCENSPLOT option

PROC LIFETEST statement, 2163

NOCENTER option

PROC MULTTEST statement, 2940

PROC PLS statement, 3376

NOCHART option

BOXPLOT procedure, 505

NOCHECK option

MODEL statement (LOGISTIC), 2313

MODELstatement (SURVEYLOGISTIC), 4263

PROC PRINQUAL statement, 3655

NOCLASSIFY option

PROC DISCRIM statement, 1149

NOCLPRINT option

PROC MIXED statement, 2678

NOCODE option

MODEL statement (RSREG), 4042

NOCOL option

TABLES statement (FREQ), 1458

NOCOLLAPSE option

STRATA statement (SURVEYREG), 4381

NOCOLLECT option

PLOT statement (REG), 3850

NOCOLUMN= option

PROC CORRESP statement, 1077

NOCONTAIN option

MODEL statement (MIXED), 2703

NOCORR option

PROC FACTOR statement, 1313

NOCOV option

PROC LOGISTIC statement, 2293

NOCUM option

TABLES statement (FREQ), 1458

NOCVSTDIZE option

PROC PLS statement, 3376

NODECREMENT option

PREDICT statement (KRIGE2D), 2041

NODESIGN option

MODEL statement (CATMOD), 845

NODESIGNPRINT= option

MODEL statement (LOGISTIC), 2313

MODEL statement (SURVEYLOGISTIC), 4264

MODEL statement (TPHREG), 4476

NODETAIL option

STRATA statement (LIFETEST), 2167

NODIAG option

PROC CALIS statement, 576

NODUMMYPRINT= option

MODEL statement (LOGISTIC), 2313

MODEL statement (SURVEYLOGISTIC), 4264

MODEL statement (TPHREG), 4476

NOEIGEN option

PROC CLUSTER statement, 970

NOEIGNUM option

NLOPTIONS statement (CALIS), 623

NOFILL option

CONTRAST statement (SURVEYREG), 4377

ESTIMATE statement (SURVEYREG), 4379

NOFIT option

MODEL statement (LOGISTIC), 2314

MODEL statement (PHREG), 3229

NOFRAME option

PLOT statement (BOXPLOT), 505

NOFREQ option

TABLES statement (FREQ), 1458

TABLES statement (SURVEYFREQ), 4201

NOFULLZ option

RANDOM statement (MIXED), 2714

NOGOODFIT option

MODEL statement (ROBUSTREG), 3990

NOHALVE option

PROC NLIN statement, 3009

NOHLABEL option

PLOT statement (BOXPLOT), 505

NOHLF option

NLOPTIONS statement (CALIS), 621

NOID option

PROC CLUSTER statement, 970

NOINCREMENT option

PREDICT statement (KRIGE2D), 2041

NOINFO option

PROC MIXED statement, 2678

NOINT option

MODEL statement (CATMOD), 845

MODEL statement (GENMOD), 1640

MODEL statement (GLM), 1772

MODEL statement (GLMMOD), 1917

MODEL statement (LIFEREG), 2099

MODEL statement (LOGISTIC), 2313

MODEL statement (MIXED), 2703, 2743

MODEL statement (ORTHOREG), 3203

MODEL statement (REG), 3827

MODEL statement (ROBUSTREG), 3990

MODEL statement (SURVEYLOGISTIC), 4264

MODEL statement (SURVEYREG), 4380

MODEL statement (TRANSREG), 4577

MULTREG statement (POWER), 3423

PROC CALIS statement, 573

PROC CANCORR statement, 760

PROC FACTOR statement, 1313

PROC PRINCOMP statement, 3605

PROC VARCLUS statement, 4811

NOITER option

MODEL statement (CATMOD), 845

PARMS statement (MIXED), 2708

NOITPRINT option

PROC MIXED statement, 2679

PROC NLIN statement, 3009

NOLINE option

PLOT statement (REG), 3847

NOLIST option

PAINT statement (REG), 3838

REWEIGHT statement (REG), 3856

NOLOG option

MODEL statement (LIFEREG), 2099

NOLOGSCALE option

MODEL statement (LOGISTIC), 2314

NOM option

REPEATED statement (ANOVA), 449

REPEATED statement (GLM), 1780

NOMEAN option

BASELINE statement (PHREG), 3226

nominal level of measurement

DISTANCE procedure, 1249

nominal power

GLMPOWER procedure, 1946, 1947, 1953

POWER procedure, 3419, 3494, 3496

nominal variable

DISTANCE procedure, 1251

nominal variables, 72,