EXTERNAL Subcommand (LOGISTIC REGRESSION command)

EXTERNAL indicates that the data for each split-file group should be held in an external scratch file during processing. This process can help conserve memory resources when running complex analyses or analyses with large data sets.

• The keyword EXTERNAL is the only specification.
• Specifying EXTERNAL may result in slightly longer processing time.
• If EXTERNAL is not specified, all data are held internally, and no scratch file is written.