The RELIABILITY Procedure

ODS Graphics

ODS Graph Names

SAS/QC procedures use ODS Graphics functionality to create graphs as part of their output. ODS Graphics is described in detail in Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS in SAS/STAT 12.1 User's Guide.

Before you create graphs, ODS Graphics must be enabled. For example:

ods graphics on;

proc reliability;
   probplot y;
run;

ods graphics off;

For more information about enabling and disabling ODS Graphics, see Chapter 21: Statistical Graphics Using ODS in SAS/STAT 12.1 User's Guide.

See Chapter 3: SAS/QC Graphics, for alternative methods of creating graphics with PROC RELIABILITY. See the section Analysis of Right-Censored Data from a Single Population for an example that uses ODS Graphics in PROC RELIABILITY to create a probability plot and the section ODS Graph Names for ODS Graphics table names.

ODS Graph Names

If ODS Graphics is enabled (for example, with the ODS GRAPHICS ON statement), PROC RELIABILITY creates graphs by using ODS Graphics. You can reference every graph produced through ODS Graphics with a name. The names of the graphs that PROC RELIABILITY generates are listed in Table 16.80, along with the required statements and options.

Table 16.80: Graphs Produced by PROC RELIABILITY

ODS Graph Name	Description	Statement	Option
IntensityPlot	Plot of intensity function for NHPP model	MCFPLOT	Fit=MODEL
IntensityPlots	Plot of intensity functions for NHPP model for multiple groups	MCFPLOT	Fit=MODEL
MCFDiffPlot	Plot of mean cumulative function differences	MCFPLOT	MCFDIFF
MCFPlot	Plot of mean cumulative function plot for single population	MCFPLOT	Default
MCFPlotPanel	Plot of mean cumulative function plots for multiple groups	MCFPLOT	Group variable
ProbabilityPlot	Probability plot for single population	PROBPLOT	Default
ProbabilityPlotFM	Probability plot with failure modes	PROBPLOT	FMODE
ProbabilityPlotPanel	Probability plots for multiple groups	PROBPLOT	Group variable
PercentilePlot	Plot of model percentiles	RELATIONPLOT	Default
RelationPlot	Plot of model percentiles with probability plot	RELATIONPLOT	PPLOT