topic Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis in SAS Programming

Error in nonparametric survival analysis

VitoAmoroso — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:03:37 GMT

I cannot run nonparametric survival analysis with SAS OnDemand for Academics anymore.

It appears this error:

ERROR 79-322: Expecting a (.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

Is there any solution?

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

Tom — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:21:29 GMT

@VitoAmoroso wrote:

I cannot run nonparametric survival analysis with SAS OnDemand for Academics anymore.

It appears this error:

79

76

ERROR 79-322: Expecting a (.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

Is there any solution?

Hard to tell since you did not share the full log for the step.

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

ballardw — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:43:09 GMT

Here is proper log entry showing a similar error I generated. Best is to copy the text from the log for the entire procedure or data step, on the forum open a text box using the </> and paste the text. The result would look like:

100  data junk;
101     x = rand 'integer',5);
                 ---------
                 22
                 76
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: (, [, {.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

102  run;

The text box is important to preserve formatting as the forum software will reformat text so the indicators of where the error is detected, the underscore characters, will not appear where they should.

The fix is usually to enter a ( in the appropriate place:

103  data junk;
104     x = rand ('integer',5);
105  run;

NOTE: The data set WORK.JUNK has 1 observations and 1 variables.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.00 seconds

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

VitoAmoroso — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:14:28 GMT

Thanks for your reply. This is the full log:

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

NOTE: ODS statements in the SAS Studio environment may disable some output features.

70 /*

71 *

72 * Task code generated by SAS Studio 3.8

73 *

74 * Generated on '7/13/25, 11:07 PM'

75 * Generated by 'vitoamoroso0'

76 * Generated on server 'ODAWS02-EUW1.ODA.SAS.COM'

77 * Generated on SAS platform 'Linux LIN X64 5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.x86_64'

78 * Generated on SAS version '9.04.01M8P02222023'

79 * Generated on browser 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)

79 ! Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

80 * Generated on web client

80 ! 'https://odamid-euw1.oda.sas.com/SASStudio/main?locale=en_US&zone=GMT%252B02%253A00&ticket=ST-46149-cZoAGFkZGrP4lyHnOcdVJ

80 ! fojg3Y-odamid00-euw1'

81 *

82 */

84 ods noproctitle;

85 ods graphics / imagemap=on;

87 proc lifetest data=WORK.IMPORT;

88 time 'Overall survival (months)'n*Censura;

ERROR 79-322: Expecting a (.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

89 run;

I noticed that the code 0 for censor is the problem. If I insert another value (i.e. 2) the analysis starts...

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

Ksharp — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:58:55 GMT

I think the right syntax of proc lifetest is :

proc lifetest data=WORK.IMPORT;
time 'Overall survival (months)'n*Censura(0);
run;

Here 0 is a value of Cnesura which stands for the censored flag .

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

garivero70 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:16:03 GMT

Error in nonparametric survival analysis

I am getting this error message - suddenly, I lost ability to input from task and utility non parametric survival (0) all other numbers work well. Any help would be appreciated (see error message below)

Gustavo

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

NOTE: ODS statements in the SAS Studio environment may disable some output features.

70 /*

71 *

72 * Task code generated by SAS Studio 3.8

73 *

74 * Generated on '7/17/25, 10:46 AM'

75 * Generated by 'garivero0'

76 * Generated on server 'ODAWS02-USW2.ODA.SAS.COM'

77 * Generated on SAS platform 'Linux LIN X64 5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.x86_64'

78 * Generated on SAS version '9.04.01M8P02222023'

79 * Generated on browser 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)

79 ! Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

80 * Generated on web client

80 ! 'https://odamid-usw2.oda.sas.com/SASStudio/main?locale=en_US&zone=GMT-04%253A00&ticket=ST-133605-lEpl7gaDBOK7vMkjyUBtE8Gq

80 ! S-A-odamid00-usw2'

81 *

82 */

84 ods noproctitle;

85 ods graphics / imagemap=on;

87 proc lifetest data=HMAVEN.ALL;

88 time Overall_survival*Censor_OS;

ERROR 79-322: Expecting a (.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

89 run;

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

Ksharp — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:56:58 GMT

you need put 0 or 1 which is the value of Censor_OS after it :

proc lifetest data=HMAVEN.ALL;
time Overall_survival*Censor_OS(0);
run;

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

u6988596 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:58:57 GMT

you are right if you correct the code and put the in the code as here = time T*Status(0);
But if you try to put the 0 in the box where you have to put the censoring value , it wouldn't accept this but i accept any other values not 0 , any solution for this or i should cahnge the coding in the table to have 1 for censoring. This error is even if you tried to use the already uploaded BMT file in SASHELP

Re: Error in nonparametric survival analysis

Ksharp — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 01:28:59 GMT

"if you try to put the 0 in the box where you have to put the censoring value"
Sorry. I don't understand your question.
Can you start a brand-new session at Stat Forum to let other sas user of statistical expert to see this ?
And can you post an example based on sashelp.bmt dataset to illustrate this issue ?

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/bd-p/statistical_procedures