FACTMAC Procedure

OUTPUT Statement

OUTPUT OUT=libref.data-table <options>;

The OUTPUT statement creates an output data table to contain the results of the procedure run. You cannot specify both the OUTPUT and AUTOTUNE statements in the same run of PROC FACTMAC.

You must specify the following option:

OUT=libref.data-table

names the output data table for PROC FACTMAC to use. You must specify this option before any other options. libref.data-table is a two-level name, where

libref: refers to a collection of information that is defined in the LIBNAME statement and includes the library, which includes a path to where the data table is to be stored. For more information about libref, see the section Using SAS Viya Workbench.
data-table: specifies the name of the output data table.

You can also specify the following options:

COPYVAR=variable COPYVARS=(variables)

lists one or more variables from the input data table to be transferred to the output data table.

ROLE<=variable>

specifies a numeric variable that indicates the role that each observation plays in fitting the model. The default name is _ROLE_. Table 3 shows how this variable is interpreted for each observation.

Table 3: Role Interpretation

Value	Observation Role
0	Not used
1	Training
2	Validation
3	Testing

If you do not partition the input data by specifying a PARTITION statement, then the role variable value is 1 for all observations.

Last updated: September 23, 2026