The HPSVM Procedure

TARGET Statement

  • TARGET target / <option>;

The TARGET statement names the target whose values PROC HPSVM tries to predict. The target must be binary and must be different from the variables in the INPUT statement.

You can specify following option:

ORDER=ordering

ensures that the target values are levelized in the specified order. You can specify one of the following values for ordering:

ASC | ASCENDING

levelizes the target values in ascending order.

DESC | DESCENDING

levelizes the target values in descending order.

FMTASC | ASCFORMATTED

levelizes the target values in ascending order of the formatted value.

FMTDESC | DESFORMATTED

levelizes the target values in descending order of the formatted value.

By default, ORDER=DESCENDING.

Last updated: May 25, 2022