Hi All, This seems like a silly question but I cannot figure out what default scheme is used to assign the "reference" and "focal group" in a typical differential item functioning analysis using PROC FREQ. My code is : proc freq data=mydata; tables stratum*gender*item&i./CMH noprint; output out=item&i. MHCHI COMOR CMH ; run; My gender variable is not dummy coded and has values = Male , Female. Would SAS use Females as the reference group since F comes before M, alphabetically? There has to be a rule documented someplace but I cannot find it. Of course my results are meaningless without knowing this. Thanks for any tips or links.
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