The PCA Procedure

OUTSTAT= Data Table

The following table relates the type of the OUTSTAT= data table to the options that are specified in the PROC PCA statement:

Options	Type
Default	CORR
COV	COV
NOINT	UCORR
COV NOINT	UCOV

Note that the default (neither the COV nor NOINT option) produces a data table of type CORR.

The new data table contains the following variables:

the BY variables, if any
two new variables, _TYPE_ and _NAME_, both character variables
the variables that are analyzed (that is, those in the VAR statement); or, if there is no VAR statement, all numeric variables not listed in any other statement; or, if there is a PARTIAL statement, the residual variables that contain the residuals computed by predicting the VAR statement variables from the PARTIAL statement variables.

Each observation in the new data table contains some type of statistic, as indicated by the _TYPE_ variable. The values of the _TYPE_ variable are as follows:

_TYPE_

Contents

MEAN

mean of each variable. If you specify the PARTIAL statement, this observation is omitted.

STD

standard deviations. If you specify the COV option, this observation is omitted. If you specify the PARTIAL statement, the standard deviation of a variable is computed as its root mean squared error as predicted from the PARTIAL statement variables.

USTD

uncorrected standard deviations. When you specify the NOINT option in the PROC PCA statement, the OUTSTAT= data table contains standard deviations not corrected for the mean. However, if you also specify the COV option in the PROC PCA statement, this observation is omitted.

N

number of observations on which the analysis is based. This value is the same for each variable. If you specify the PARTIAL statement and the value of the VARDEF= option is DF or unspecified, then the number of observations is decremented by the degrees of freedom for the PARTIAL statement variables.

SUMWGT

the sum of the weights of the observations. This value is the same for each variable. If you specify the PARTIAL statement and VARDEF=WDF, then the sum of the weights is decremented by the degrees of freedom for the PARTIAL statement variables. This observation is output only if the value is different from that in the observation for which _TYPE_=‘N’.

CORR

correlations between each variable and the variable specified by the _NAME_ variable. The number of observations for which _TYPE_=CORR is equal to the number of variables being analyzed. If you specify the COV option, no _TYPE_=CORR observations are produced. If you use the PARTIAL statement, then the partial correlations, not the raw correlations, are output.

UCORR

uncorrected correlation matrix. When you specify the NOINT option without the COV option in the PROC PCA statement, the OUTSTAT= data table contains a matrix of correlations not corrected for the means. However, if you also specify the COV option in the PROC PCA statement, this observation is omitted.

COV

covariances between each variable and the variable specified by the _NAME_ variable. _TYPE_=COV observations are produced only if you specify the COV option. If you specify the PARTIAL statement, the partial covariances, not the raw covariances, are output.

UCOV

uncorrected covariance matrix. When you specify the NOINT and COV options in the PROC PCA statement, the OUTSTAT= data table contains a matrix of covariances not corrected for the means.

EIGENVAL

eigenvalues. If the N= option requests less than the maximum number of principal components, only the specified number of eigenvalues are produced, and missing values fill out the observation.

SCORE

eigenvectors. The _NAME_ variable contains the name of the corresponding principal component as constructed from the PREFIX= option. The number of observations for which _TYPE_=SCORE equals the number of principal components computed. The eigenvectors have unit length unless you specify the STD option, in which case the unit-length eigenvectors are divided by the square roots of the eigenvalues to produce scores that have unit standard deviations.

To obtain the principal component scores, if the COV option is not specified, these coefficients should be multiplied by the standardized data. For the COV option, these coefficients should be multiplied by the centered data. To center and standardize the data, you should use means that are obtained from the observation for which _TYPE_=MEAN and standard deviations that are obtained from the observation for which _TYPE_=STD.

USCORE

scoring coefficients to be applied without subtracting the mean from the raw variables. Observations for which _TYPE_=USCORE are produced when you specify the NOINT option in the PROC PCA statement.

To obtain the principal component scores, these coefficients should be multiplied by the data that are standardized by the uncorrected standard deviations obtained from the observation for which _TYPE_=USTD.

RSQUARED

R-squares for each VAR statement variable as predicted by the PARTIAL statement variables.

B

regression coefficients for each VAR statement variable as predicted by the PARTIAL statement variables. This observation is produced only if you specify the COV option.

STB

standardized regression coefficients for each VAR statement variable as predicted by the PARTIAL statement variables. If you specify the COV option, this observation is omitted.

Last updated: December 21, 2018