Toni Zhang wrote: > > I have a project of Discriminant Function Analysis to find items that > predict group membership to the best possible accuracy for segmentation > research. > > I know the process it to get each respondent’s probability score of > membership into each of the, say 11 segments. There are 6 predict variables > that used, they are Q1-Q6. Afterwards, I need to multiply the response on > each item by the coefficients and sum all of the scores and add the > constant. I then need to compare the 11 scores within each respondent. The > respondent is placed in the segment that has the biggest score. > > I wonder if there is a good SAS code do this all at once. If there is not, > what should I do to save the first SAS output and then do the calculation > and then compare the 11 scores. If you have created and like some beautiful > SAS code, please share with me if you don’t mind.

Seems to me that PROC DISCRIM does exactly this.

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