General Options :: SAS/QC(R) 13.1 User's Guide

General Options

ALPHADELTA=value

specifies the change in successive estimates of $\hat{\alpha }$ at which iteration terminates in the Newton-Raphson approximation of the maximum likelihood estimate of $\alpha$ for gamma distributions requested with the GAMMA option. Enclose the ALPHADELTA= option in parentheses after the GAMMA keyword. Iteration continues until the change in $\alpha$ is less than the value specified or the number of iterations exceeds the value of the MAXITER= option. The default value is 0.00001.

ALPHAINITIAL=value

specifies the initial value for $\hat{\alpha }$ in the Newton-Raphson approximation of the maximum likelihood estimate of $\alpha$ for gamma distributions requested with the GAMMA option. Enclose the ALPHAINITIAL= option in parentheses after the GAMMA keyword. The default value is Thom’s approximation of the estimate of $\alpha$ . See Johnson, Kotz, and Balakrishnan (1995).

CDELTA=value

specifies the change in successive estimates of c at which iterations terminate in the Newton-Raphson approximation of the maximum likelihood estimate of c for Weibull distributions requested by the WEIBULL option. Enclose the CDELTA= option in parentheses after the WEIBULL keyword. Iteration continues until the change in c between consecutive steps is less than the value specified or until the number of iterations exceeds the value of the MAXITER= option. The default value is 0.00001.

CINITIAL=value

specifies the initial value for $\hat{c}$ in the Newton-Raphson approximation of the maximum likelihood estimate of c for Weibull distributions requested with the WEIBULL or WEIBULL2 option. The default value is 1.8. See Johnson, Kotz, and Balakrishnan (1995).

CONTENTS='string'

specifies the table of contents grouping entry for output produced by the plot statement. You can specify CONTENTS='' to suppress the grouping entry.

CPROP CPROP=color | EMPTY

specifies the color for a horizontal bar whose length (relative to the width of the tile) indicates the proportion of the total frequency that is represented by the corresponding cell in a comparative plot. By default, no proportion bars are displayed. You can specify the keyword EMPTY to display empty bars.

For traditional graphics with the GSTYLE system option in effect, you can specify CPROP with no argument to produce proportion bars using an appropriate color from the ODS style. The CPROP option is not available with ODS Graphics.

HAXIS=value

specifies the name of an AXIS statement describing the horizontal axis.

HREF=values

draws reference lines that are perpendicular to the horizontal axis at the values that you specify. Also see the CHREF= and LHREF= options.

HREFLABELS='label1' …'labeln' HREFLABEL='label1' …'labeln' HREFLAB='label1' …'labeln'

specifies labels for the lines requested by the HREF= option. The number of labels must equal the number of lines. Enclose each label in quotes. Labels can have up to 16 characters.

HREFLABPOS=n

specifies the vertical position of HREFLABELS= labels, as described in the following table.

n	Position
1	along top of plot
2	staggered from top to bottom of plot
3	along bottom of plot
4	staggered from bottom to top of plot

By default, HREFLABPOS=1. Note: HREFLABPOS=2 and HREFLABPOS=4 are not supported for ODS Graphics output.

INTERTILE=value

specifies the distance in horizontal percentage screen units between the framed areas, called tiles, of a comparative plot. By default, INTERTILE=0.75 percentage screen units. You can specify INTERTILE=0 to create contiguous tiles.

MAXITER=n

specifies the maximum number of iterations in the Newton-Raphson approximation of the maximum likelihood estimate of $\alpha$ for gamma distributions requested with the GAMMA option and c for Weibull distributions requested with the WEIBULL and WEIBULL2 options. Enclose the MAXITER= option in parentheses after the GAMMA, WEIBULL, or WEIBULL2 keywords. The default value of n is 20.

NCOLS=n NCOL=n

specifies the number of columns per panel in a comparative plot. By default, NCOLS=1 if you specify only one CLASS variable, and NCOLS=2 if you specify two CLASS variables. If you specify two CLASS variables, you can use the NCOLS= option with the NROWS= option.

NOHLABEL

suppresses the label for the horizontal axis. You can use this option to reduce clutter.

NOVLABEL

suppresses the label for the vertical axis. You can use this option to reduce clutter.

NOVTICK

suppresses the tick marks and tick mark labels for the vertical axis. This option also suppresses the label for the vertical axis.

NROWS=n NROW=n

specifies the number of rows per panel in a comparative plot. By default, NROWS=2. If you specify two CLASS variables, you can use the NCOLS= option with the NROWS= option.

ODSFOOTNOTE=FOOTNOTE | FOOTNOTE1 | 'string'

adds a footnote to ODS Graphics output. If you specify the FOOTNOTE (or FOOTNOTE1) keyword, the value of SAS FOOTNOTE statement is used as the graph footnote. If you specify a quoted string, that is used as the footnote. The quoted string can contain either of the following escaped characters, which are replaced with the appropriate values from the analysis:

$\backslash$ n: analysis variable name
$\backslash$ l: analysis variable label (or name if the analysis variable has no label)

ODSFOOTNOTE2=FOOTNOTE2 | 'string'

adds a secondary footnote to ODS Graphics output. If you specify the FOOTNOTE2 keyword, the value of SAS FOOTNOTE2 statement is used as the secondary graph footnote. If you specify a quoted string, that is used as the secondary footnote. The quoted string can contain any of the following escaped characters, which are replaced with the appropriate values from the analysis:

$\backslash$ n: analysis variable name
$\backslash$ l: analysis variable label (or name if the analysis variable has no label)

specifies a title for ODS Graphics output.

TITLE (or TITLE1): uses the value of SAS TITLE statement as the graph title.
NONE: suppresses all titles from the graph.
DEFAULT: uses the default ODS Graphics title (a descriptive title consisting of the plot type and the analysis variable name.)
LABELFMT: uses the default ODS Graphics title with the variable label instead of the variable name.

If you specify a quoted string, that is used as the graph title. The quoted string can contain the following escaped characters, which are replaced with the appropriate values from the analysis:

$\backslash$ n: analysis variable name
$\backslash$ l: analysis variable label (or name if the analysis variable has no label)

ODSTITLE2=TITLE2 | 'string'

specifies a secondary title for ODS Graphics output. If you specify the TITLE2 keyword, the value of SAS TITLE2 statement is used as the secondary graph title. If you specify a quoted string, that is used as the secondary title. The quoted string can contain the following escaped characters, which are replaced with the appropriate values from the analysis:

$\backslash$ n: analysis variable name
$\backslash$ l: analysis variable label (or name if the analysis variable has no label)

OVERLAY

specifies that plots associated with different levels of a CLASS variable be overlaid onto a single plot, rather than displayed as separate cells in a comparative plot. If you specify the OVERLAY option with one CLASS variable, the output associated with each level of the CLASS variable is overlaid on a single plot. If you specify the OVERLAY option with two CLASS variables, a comparative plot based on the first CLASS variable’s levels is produced. Each cell in this comparative plot contains overlaid output associated with the levels of the second CLASS variable.

The OVERLAY option applies only to ODS Graphics output. It is not available in the COMPHISTOGRAM statement.

SCALE=value

is an alias for the SIGMA= option for distributions requested by the BETA, EXPONENTIAL, GAMMA, SB, SU, WEIBULL, and WEIBULL2 options and for the ZETA= option for distributions requested by the LOGNORMAL option.

SHAPE=value

is an alias for the ALPHA= option for distributions requested by the GAMMA option, for the SIGMA= option for distributions requested by the LOGNORMAL option, and for the C= option for distributions requested by the WEIBULL and WEIBULL2 options.

STATREF=keyword-list

draws reference lines at the values of the statistics requested in the keyword-list. These reference lines are perpendicular to the horizontal axis in a histogram or cdf plot, and perpendicular to the vertical axis in a probability or Q-Q plot (unless the ROTATE option is specified). The STATREF= option does not apply to the PPPLOT statement.

Valid keywords are listed in the following table.

Keyword	Statistic
MAX	largest value
MEAN	sample mean
MEDIAN \| Q2	median (50th percentile)
MIN	smallest value
MODE	most frequent value
P pctl	pctlth percentile
Q1	lower quartile (25th percentile)
Q3	upper quartile (75th percentile)
factor STD	factor standard deviations from the mean

Note that the factor specified with the STD keyword can be positive (which puts a reference line above the mean) or negative (below the mean).

Also see the CSTATREF=, LSTATREF=, STATREFLABELS=, and STATREFSUBCHAR= options.

STATREFLABELS='label1' …'labeln' STATREFLABEL='label1' …'labeln' STATREFLAB='label1' …'labeln'

specifies labels for the lines requested by the STATREF= option. The number of labels must equal the number of lines. Enclose each label in quotes. Labels can have up to 16 characters.

STATREFSUBCHAR='keyword-list'

specifies a substitution character (such as #) for labels specified with the STATREFLABELS= option. When the labels are displayed on a graph, the first occurrence of the specified character in each label is replaced with the value of the corresponding STATREF= statistic.

VAXIS=name VAXIS=value-list

specifies the name of an AXIS statement describing the vertical axis. In a COMPHISTOGRAM or HISTOGRAM statement, you can alternatively specify a value-list for the vertical axis.

VAXISLABEL='label'

specifies a label for the vertical axis. Labels can have up to 40 characters.

VREF=value-list

draws reference lines perpendicular to the vertical axis at the values specified. Also see the CVREF= and LVREF= options.

VREFLABELS='label1'…'labeln' VREFLABEL='label1'…'labeln' VREFLAB='label1'…'labeln'

specifies labels for the lines requested by the VREF= option. The number of labels must equal the number of lines. Enclose each label in quotes. Labels can have up to 16 characters.

VREFLABPOS=n

specifies the horizontal position of VREFLABELS= labels. If you specify VREFLABPOS=1, the labels are positioned at the left of the plot. If you specify VREFLABPOS=2, the labels are positioned at the right of the plot. By default, VREFLABPOS=1 for traditional graphics and 2 for ODS Graphics.