R side effects give rise to marginal estimates, and are the equivalent of the REPEATED statement in PROC MIXED.  They are invoked in PROC GLIMMIX by including the residual option after the slash, or when only fitting for overdispersion/hetereogeneity with the _residual_ option before the slash. G side effects give rise to conditional estimates, and are the equivalent of the RANDOM statement in PROC MIXED. Steve Denham ... View more

Thank you very much, I found my way out with this book. Best Regards ... View more

We were all newbie's once.  For me, that was a very long time ago.... You had a mix of data programming and the procedure statements that were causing headaches.  That sort of DATA step can be very efficient, but has challenges.  I saw the missing DO immediately, but had forgotten the need for commas until I saw the next round of errors.  Then, there was FREQ (vs WEIGHT) for count data.  I dropped the PLOT statement because SAS 9.3 provides very nice statistical graphics by default. Doc Muhlbaier Duke ... View more