Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Table Definitions and Style Definitions

As explained in the previous example, table definitions are used by ODS to control how procedure and DATA step results are displayed. They define the structure and basic layout for your results. What makes ODS so powerful is that you can modify these table definitions to change the structure or content of your output.

For example, our PROC CORR from the previous example creates two pieces of output: a table with the variable names, and a table with the number of observations, correlation coefficient, and probability. However, we're not limited to this output. ODS allows us to specify which tables we'd like to create.

PROC CORR has some built-in control over output. In this example, the NOSIMPLE option ...