INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82ST19 ON WINDOWS BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82ST19 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of SAS/STAT software on Windows as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-005135 PROC MIXED Produces Incorrect Satterthwaite or KR Degrees of Freedom with TYPE=FA0(2) on RANDOM Statement and a profile residual variance SN-005132 PROC MIXED May Report Wrong Satterthwaite or KR Degrees of Freedom with Heterogeneous Covariance Structures on the RANDOM statement SN-005780 The DDFM=SATTERTHWAITE option can cause incorrect results when used in the presence of both a RANDOM and a REPEATED statement SN-011543 The HTYPE=2 option on the MODEL statement in PROC MIXED produces incorrect results SN-011541 Incorrect Parameter Estimates When Same Variable List Used on Random Statement and Model Statement SN-011540 ASYCOV Matrix May Be Computed Incorrectly When Scoring Does Not Stop SN-011542 Incorrect Covariance Parameter Estimates When LOCAL Option Used with Kronecker Product Structures on REPEATED Statement SN-017503 Incorrect results with RANDOM statement and TYPE=SP() when random effect involves a continuous effect SN-017255 PROC MIXED can produce incorrect results for CONTRAST or ESTIMATE statement involving levels of random effects SN-017511 Incorrect output when REPEATED statement uses TYPE=ANTE(1) and data not sorted by repeated effect within each subject which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005135.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005132.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005780.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011543.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011541.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011540.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011542.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/017/017503.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/017/017255.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/017/017511.html IMPORTANT NOTE(S): 1. You must have Release 8.2 (TS2M0) installed on your system before applying this hot fix. 2. You must have Administrator Privileges on your CLIENT or SERVER machine. 3. All currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers must be terminated before applying this hot fix. AFTER DOWNLOADING: The hot fix package downloaded is a self extracting executable named 82st19wn.exe. Launching the executable will initiate the install wizard, which will guide you through the setup process. The following files will be installed: * sasmixed.dll the replacement module containing the hot fix * 82st19wn.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82st19wn.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix This completes the installation of hot fix 82ST19 on Windows.