proc varclus: "WARNING: Iteration limit exceeded in search phase"

[tassr82]

Could you please explain to me what does this warning actually mean?

Is it a non convergence warning and if yes, what has affected: the fields groupings or only the coefficients or both?

Thanks!

[tassr82]

To make things a bit more complicated, if we are running a solution with minclusters=1 and maxcluster=15 and the "Iteration limit exceeded" message only appears in the first 5 steps, shall we worry about the end result (as in clusters=15 the algorithm has been converged)?

[sld]

Using my trusty internet search engine (varclus "WARNING: Iteration limit exceeded in search phase"), I found this

http://support.sas.com/kb/31/857.html

Because you did not post your code, I do not know whether this note is pertinent to your problem.

See this thread also:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Statistical-Procedures/waring-message-from-proc-varclus/td-p/3549...