An Introduction to SAS University Edition

Chapter 19: Summarizing Data with SAS Procedures

Introduction

Using PROC MEANS (with the Default Options)

Using PROC MEANS Options to Customize the Summary Report

Computing Statistics for Each Value of a BY Variable

Using a CLASS Statement Instead of a BY Statement

Including Multiple CLASS Variables with PROC MEANS

Statistics Broken Down Every Way

Using PROC MEANS to Create a Summary Data Set

Letting PROC MEANS Name the Variables in the Output Data Set

Creating a Summary Data Set with CLASS Variables

Using a Formatted CLASS Variable

Demonstrating PROC UNIVARIATE

Conclusion

Problems

Introduction

This chapter describes how to summarize numeric data (means, standard deviations, etc.), and how to create SAS data sets containing this summary information. ...