topic Re: How to increase length of variable names in ParameterEstimate ods output in proc genmod? in SAS Programming

How to increase length of variable names in ParameterEstimate ods output in proc genmod?

RobertWF1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:22:38 GMT

For example, after running the following code I see that the variable "very_long_variable_name" gets cut off to "very_long_variable_n" in the Parameter column of the ParameterEstimates ods output datset.

Usually this isn't an issue, except in my current project I have several long variable names I'd like to retain. I've also noticed other SAS procedures such as proc means or proc reg don't truncate variable names in the ods output.

data test;
input y very_long_variable_name;
cards;
10 17
20 41
30 59
;
run;

ods trace on;
proc genmod data=test;
	model y = very_long_variable_name;
	ods output ParameterEstimates=reg_output;
run;

Re: How to increase length of variable names in ParameterEstimate ods output in proc genmod?

maguiremq — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:32:58 GMT

This probably provides a better explanation than I can. I know other PROCs have things like PARMLABEL and what not.

Re: How to increase length of variable names in ParameterEstimate ods output in proc genmod?

RobertWF1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:45:01 GMT

Thanks Michael - this is helpful although looks like it applies to name literals.

I'm trying something along the lines of:

ods trace on;
proc genmod data=test;
model y = very_long_variable_name;
ods output ParameterEstimates=reg_output (length Parameter $ 32);
run;

But so far this isn't working.

Re: How to increase length of variable names in ParameterEstimate ods output in proc genmod?

PaigeMiller — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:55:48 GMT

Use the NAMELEN= option.

Re: How to increase length of variable names in ParameterEstimate ods output in proc genmod?

RobertWF1 — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:13:21 GMT

Bingo that did it! Thank you!