The exponential distribution is obtained when the scale parameter of the gamma distribution (nu in the GENMOD documentation) is 1. So, you can fit a model to exponential data by simply adding the SCALE=1 and NOSCALE options in the MODEL statement. The NOSCALE option keeps the scale parameter fixed at the SCALE=1 setting and gives you a Lagrange multiplier test of the nu=1 restriction.
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