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Tiny_Kane
Obsidian | Level 7

I want to calculate Polychoric correlation  by using PROC CORR. My code is

proc corr data=adbttforcfa POLYCHORIC;

var adbtt_dom_1b adbtt_dom_2b adbtt_dom_3b adbtt_dom_4b adbtt_dom_5b adbtt_dom_6b adbtt_dom_7b adbtt_dom_8b;

title 'correlation for items of factor isolated';

run;

But it failed, SAS log showed error message like:

20  proc corr data=adbttforcfa POLYCHORIC;

                                ----------

                                22

                                202

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, (, ALPHA, BEST, COV, CSSCP, DATA, EXCLNPWGT, FISHER, HOEFFDING,

              KENDALL, NOCORR, NOMISS, NOPRINT, NOPROB, NOSIMPLE, OUTH, OUTK, OUTP, OUTS, PEARSON, PLOTS, POLYSERIAL, RANK,

              SINGULAR, SPEARMAN, SSCP, VARDEF.

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

521  var adbtt_dom_1b adbtt_dom_2b adbtt_dom_3b adbtt_dom_4b adbtt_dom_5b adbtt_dom_6b adbtt_dom_7b adbtt_dom_8b;

522  title 'correlation for items of factor isolated';

523  run;

What is the reason?? PROC CORR cannot produce Polychoric correlation?

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lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12 lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

What version of SAS are you using? POLYCHORIC definitely works in 9.3 and 9.4. I don't know when it was added (it was not in old version 8).

Tiny_Kane
Obsidian | Level 7

I am using SAS 9.3.

Tiny_Kane
Obsidian | Level 7

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NOTE: This session is executing on the X64_7PRO  platform.

lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12 lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Looks like the option only appeared with STAT 12.1 (or later), which was still part of 9.3. Your version (TS1M1) doesn't have it. I just checked. You will need a newer version of SAS for this.

lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12 lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

But you can get the polychoric correlation using PROC FREQ in older versions of SAS.

Tiny_Kane
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi~ Proc freq can give me polychoric correlation. However, I have more than two variables, therefore I want to get a correlation matrix...But it seems like PROC FREQ cannot make the matrix...Do you have any idea to solve it? Thank you in advance!

lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12 lvm
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

You can try the old sas macro for polychoric correlations. Never used it, so you would be on your own.

http://support.sas.com/kb/25/010.html

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