INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX E9ST08 ON WINDOWS BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix E9ST08 addresses the issue(s) in SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) of SAS/STAT software on Windows as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-017255 PROC MIXED can produce incorrect results for CONTRAST or ESTIMATE statement involving levels of random effects SN-017503 Incorrect results with RANDOM statement and TYPE=SP() when random effect involves a continuous effect SN-017511 Incorrect output when REPEATED statement uses TYPE=ANTE(1) and data not sorted by repeated effect within each subject SN-019432 Incorrect output possible with the GROUP= option on RANDOM statement which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/017/017255.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/017/017503.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/017/017511.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/019/019432.html IMPORTANT NOTE(S): 1. You must have SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) and SAS 9.1.3 Service Pack 4 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 e9st08wn.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 * e9st08wn.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * e9st08wn.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix * checksums and *.ini files used during SASIQ validation testing This completes the installation of hot fix E9ST08 on Windows.