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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition
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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

by SAS Institute
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
582 pages
25h 3m
English
SAS Institute
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Group Processing Using the CLASS Statement

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:
CLASS variable(s);
variable(s) specifies category variables for group processing.
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 ...
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