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Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

I have repeated measures data with 3 measurements for which the correlation between repeated measures is shown below. I use PROC MIXED and have /TYPE= in the REPEATED statement.

 

I tried different covariance structures but only the model with UN(1) converges. I was expecting that AR(1) would converge because I thought that would be a better fit based on the PROC CORR results. I appreciate it if I have your insight on this.

(I tried ARH(1), AR(1), UN, VC, CS, UNR, TOEP, CSH, TOEPH)

 

proc corr data=wide;
var M1 M2 M3;
run;

 

Pearson Correlation Coefficients
Prob > |r| under H0: Rho=0
Number of Observations
  M1 M2 M3
M1 1.00000

42167
0.85104
<.0001
41466
0.78900
<.0001
40845
M2 0.85104
<.0001
41466
1.00000

41923
0.81367
<.0001
41028
M3 0.78900
<.0001
40845
0.81367
<.0001
41028
1.00000

41446

 

Thank you!

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SteveDenham
Jade | Level 19

What sort of error messages, warnings or notes are in the log?  What about messages in the output listing?  Some of those might help shed some light on what is happening.  I find it surprising that UN(1) converges and VC doesn't, so let's see what is happening there first.

 

SteveDenham

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