The HPBNET Procedure

TARGET Statement

TARGET variable </ORDER=order> ;

The TARGET statement names the variable that PROC HPBNET predicts. PROC HPBNET treats the TARGET variable as nominal. You can specify the following option:

ORDER=DESC | ASC | FMTDESC | FMTASC

specifies the order of the target variable. You can specify the following values:

ASC: orders the levels of the target in ascending order based on the raw values.
DESC: orders the levels of the target in descending order based on the raw values.
FMTASC: orders the levels of the target in ascending order based on the formatted values.
FMTDESC: orders the levels of the target in descending order based on the formatted values.

If you define a user-defined format for the target variable and you specify ORDER=DESC or ORDER=ASC, PROC HPBNET prints a warning message and uses the corresponding FMTDESC or FMTASC value instead.

By default, ORDER=DESC.

Last updated: May 25, 2022