PANEL Procedure

PROC PANEL Statement

PROC PANEL options;

The PROC PANEL statement invokes the PANEL procedure. You can specify the following options:

DATA=SAS-data-set: names the input data set. The input data set must be sorted by cross section and by time period within each cross section. If you omit this option, the most recently created SAS data set is used.
OUTCOV COVOUT: writes the standard errors and covariance matrix of the parameter estimates to the OUTEST= data set. For more information, see the section OUTEST= Data Set.
OUTCORR CORROUT: writes the correlation matrix of the parameter estimates to the OUTEST= data set. For more information, see the section OUTEST= Data Set.
OUTEST=SAS-data-set: names an output data set to contain the parameter estimates. If you omit this option, the OUTEST= data set is not created. For more information about the structure of the OUTEST= data set, see the section OUTEST= Data Set.
OUTTRANS=SAS-data-set: names an output data set to contain the transformed data. Several models that the PANEL procedure supports are estimated by first transforming the data and then applying standard regression techniques to the transformed data. This option enables you to access the transformed data. For more information about the structure of the OUTTRANS= data set, see the section OUTTRANS= Data Set.
PLOTS < (global-plot-options < (NCROSS=value) > ) > < = (specific-plot-options) >: selects plots to be produced via the Output Delivery System. For general information about ODS Graphics, see Chapter 24, Statistical Graphics Using ODS (SAS/STAT User's Guide). The global-plot-options apply to all relevant plots that the PANEL procedure generates.

Global Plot Options

The following global-plot-options are supported:

NCROSS=value: specifies the number of cross sections to be combined into one time series plot.
ONLY: suppresses the default plots. Only the plots that you specifically request are produced.
UNPACKPANEL UNPACK: displays each graph separately. By default, some graphs can appear together in a single panel.

Specific Plot Options

The following specific-plot-options are supported:

ACTSURFACE: produces a surface plot of actual values.
ALL: produces all appropriate plots.
FITPLOT: plots the predicted and actual values.
NONE: suppresses all plots.
PREDSURFACE: produces a surface plot of predicted values.
QQ: produces a Q-Q plot of residuals.
RESIDSTACK | RESSTACK: produces a stacked plot of residuals.
RESIDSURFACE: produces a surface plot of residual values.
RESIDUAL | RES: plots the residuals.
RESIDUALHISTOGRAM | RESIDHISTOGRAM: plots the histogram of residuals.

For more information, see the section Creating ODS Graphics.

In addition, you can specify any of the following MODEL statement options in the PROC PANEL statement: AMACURDY, BTWNG, BTWNT, CORRB, COVB, DASILVA, DYNDIFF, DYNSYS, FDONE, FDONETIME, FDTWO, FIXONE, FIXONETIME, FIXTWO, HTAYLOR, M=, NOINT, NOPRINT, PARKS, PHI, POOLED, PRINTFIXED, RANONE, RANTWO, RHO, SINGULAR=, and VCOMP=. When you specify these options in the PROC PANEL statement, they apply globally to every MODEL statement. For a complete description of each of these options, see the section MODEL Statement.

Last updated: June 19, 2025