You
often want statistics for groups of observations, rather than for
the entire data set. For example, census numbers are more useful when
grouped by region than when viewed as a national total. To produce
separate analyses of grouped observations, add a CLASS statement to
the MEANS procedure.
Syntax, CLASS statement:
variable(s) specifies
category variables for group processing.
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CLASS variables are used to categorize data. CLASS variables can be either character or numeric, but they should contain a limited number of discrete values that represent meaningful groupings. If a CLASS statement is used, then the N Obs statistic is calculated. The N Obs statistic is based ...