Specifying Variables in PROC FREQ
TABLES Statement Syntax
By default, the FREQ procedure creates frequency tables
for every variable in a data set. But this is not always what you
want. A variable that has continuous numeric values (such as DateTime)
can result in a lengthy and meaningless table. Likewise, a variable
that has a unique value for each observation (such as FullName) is
unsuitable for PROC FREQ processing. Frequency distributions work
best with variables whose values are categorical, and whose values
are better summarized by counts rather than by averages.
To specify the
variables to be processed by the FREQ procedure, include a TABLES
statement.
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Syntax, TABLES statement:
TABLES variable(s);
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