Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

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6.2 Using Variable Aliases

In the example in Section 6.1.6, six statistics are applied to each of the two analysis variables.

Here are the PROC and COLUMN statements:

proc report data=rptdata.clinics(where=(region in('1','2')))

nowd;

columns region clinname (ht wt),(min max n mean median);

Although nesting the statistics this way works fine, we have some limitations on the use of

DEFINE statements. Only one DEFINE statement can be applied to each of the analysis variables,

and the DEFINE attributes are applied to all of the statistics associated with that analysis variable. ...