Getting Started with SAS Programming

Chapter 19: Summarizing Data with SAS Procedures

Introduction

This chapter describes how to summarize numeric data (means, standard deviations, etc.), and how to create SAS data sets containing this summary information. The main tools are PROC MEANS, PROC SUMMARY, and PROC UNIVARIATE.

Using PROC MEANS (with the Default Options)

PROC MEANS is one of the most useful procedures for summarizing data. As you will see in the programs that follow, you can run this procedure without specifying any options and obtain useful information, including the number of nonmissing observations, the mean, the standard deviation, and the minimum and the maximum values for all the numeric variables in the data set. Later on, in this chapter, you will see how to ...