ERROR 22-322; ERROR 73-322; ERROR 76-322

[kegong]

Dear experts,

I tried to run:

PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;

                 CLASS i f c year;

     MODEL roa = year/ SOLUTION CL CHISQ DDFM=RESIDUAL NOTEST;

                 RANDOM year INTERCEPT / TYPE=AR(1) subject=i;

                 RANDOM INTERCEPT / TYPE=VC subject=f(i);

                 RANDOM INTERCEPT / TYPE=VC subject=c(f i);

                 REPEATED year/ TYPE=AR(1) SUBJECT=f(i);

RUN;

But I got below error message:

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;

NOTE: Writing HTML Body file: sashtml.htm

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;

                                   -------

                                   22

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, (, BLUP, DATA, IC, INFOCRIT, ITDETAILS, LOGNOTE, MAXCLPRINT,

              METHOD, MMEQ, NAMELEN, NLPRINT, NOCLPRINT, NOFIT, NOINFO, NOITPRINT, NOPRINT, NOPROFILE, ORDER, RANKS, SIMPLE,

              SINGCHOL, SINGRES, SINGULAR, UPDATE.

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;

                                   -------

                                   202

ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;

                                                                    ------

                                                                    73

ERROR 73-322: Expecting an =.

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;

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                                                                    76

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

NOTE: PROCEDURE HPMIXED used (Total process time):

      real time           0.62 seconds

      cpu time            0.51 seconds

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

73       CLASS i f c year;

74        MODEL roa = year/ SOLUTION CL CHISQ DDFM=RESIDUAL NOTEST;

75       RANDOM year INTERCEPT / TYPE=AR(1) subject=i;

76       RANDOM INTERCEPT / TYPE=VC subject=f(i);

77       RANDOM INTERCEPT / TYPE=VC subject=c(f i);

78       REPEATED year/ TYPE=AR(1) SUBJECT=f(i);

79   RUN;

Could someone please help me with this issue? Thank you very much!

[ScottBass]

I'm not an expert on HPMIXED, but will give it a shot...

1) Start with a fresh SAS session - something upstream of PROC HPMIXED (missing semicolon, missing %mend, etc) could be a problem.

2) If your upstream code is creating work.fiscal, temporarily write it to a permanent library (for example sasuser), then again start with a fresh SAS session, and just submit your PROC HPMIXED step.

3) Validate your HPMIXED syntax against https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/statug/63962/HTML/default/viewer.htm#statug_hpmixed_sec....  For example, I don't see a COVTEST option, but I didn't search the doc very hard, and I'm sure you know the HPMIXED syntax better than me.

[Kurt_Bremser]

First, always use the {i} button for posting logs, as it makes the log clearer:

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;
                                   -------
                                   22
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, (, BLUP, DATA, IC, INFOCRIT, ITDETAILS, LOGNOTE, MAXCLPRINT,
              METHOD, MMEQ, NAMELEN, NLPRINT, NOCLPRINT, NOFIT, NOINFO, NOITPRINT, NOPRINT, NOPROFILE, ORDER, RANKS, SIMPLE,
              SINGCHOL, SINGRES, SINGULAR, UPDATE.

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;
                                   -------
                                   202
ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;
                                                                    ------
                                                                    73
ERROR 73-322: Expecting an =.

72   PROC HPMIXED DATA=work.fiscal COVTEST NOCLPRINT NAMELEN=100 IC METHOD=REML lognote lognote;
                                                                    ------
                                                                    76
ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

Maxim 1: Read the Documentation. The documentation for the HPMIXED statement does not mention a COVTEST or METHOD option at all, and the IC option expects an equal sign and the type of information criteria.

[kegong]

@Kurt_Bremser @ScottBass Thank you all very much! I'll carefully read what you shared and do some research on how do deal with this.