PROC PLAN Statement
- PROC PLAN < options > ;
The PROC PLAN statement starts the PLAN procedure
and, optionally, specifies a random number seed or
a default method for selecting levels of factors.
By default, the procedure uses a random number seed
generated from reading the time of day from the
computer's clock and randomly selects levels of factors.
These defaults can be modified with the
SEED= and ORDERED options, respectively.
Unlike many SAS/STAT procedures, the PLAN procedure does not have a DATA=
option in the PROC statement; in this procedure, both the
input and output data sets are specified in the OUTPUT statement.
You can specify the following options in the PROC PLAN statement:
- SEED=number
-
specifies a positive integer less than 231 - 1.
PROC PLAN uses the value of the SEED= option to start the pseudo-random
number generator for selecting factor levels randomly.
The default is a value generated from reading
the time of day from the computer's clock.
- ORDERED
-
selects the levels of the factor as
the integers 1,2, ... ,m, in order.
For more detail, see the "Selection-Types" section and
see the "Specifying Factor Structures" section.
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