Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating Output Data Sets from Multiple Procedures: Part 1

Not only does ODS enable you to combine output objects from a single procedure into a common data set, but you can also combine same-named output objects from multiple procedures into a common data set. If you are running a single procedure repeatedly, it can be useful to be able to create a combined data set.

For example, let's say you are running a series of models to explore the relationships between your variables. This can generate pages and pages of printed output. It would be much nicer to be able to produce a simple summary table. This example looks at how to combine the odds ratio results from a series of PROC LOGISTIC runs. After running the procedure once as a test, we can ...