SAS Nested Procedure shows dots

[Richard]

Hello,

I am working on a task concerning nested procedures.

The input is as follows:

data experiment;

input lot wafer site rho;

cards;

1   1   1   4.289

...

run;

Then I use the following commands:

proc print;

run;

proc sort;

by lot wafer site;

run;

proc nested;

class lot wafer site;

var rho;

run;

As output, I get the 'Nested random effects analysis of variance for variable rho'.

But the output shows some dots, for example: Variance source Site: There is a dot in the column of 'random sum of squares' in 'F value' and in 'Pr>F'.

Also in variance source Error, there are only dots or zeros.

Can anyone tell me why these dots are there?? And how I can get them away? => How can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Richard

[SteveDenham]

The first thing that I would think of would be incomplete data, so that all degrees of freedom are used.  I would guess that there is only one observation per site within wafer within lot--hence no residual variability and no variance due to site.  What happens if you fit:

proc nested;

class lot wafer;

var rho;

run;

The residual error in this case will be due to site within wafer within lot.

Steve Denham

[Richard]

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Richard