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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

You're reading from   Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis A practical guide to performing effective queries, data visualization, and reporting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839822
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harish Gulati Harish Gulati
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: SAS Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to SAS Programming 3. Data Manipulation and Transformation 4. Section 2: Merging, Optimizing, and Descriptive Statistics
5. Combining, Indexing, Encryption, and Compression Techniques Simplified 6. Power of Statistics, Reporting, Transforming Procedures, and Functions 7. Section 3: Advanced Programming
8. Advanced Programming Techniques - SAS Macros 9. Powerful Functions, Options, and Automatic Variables Simplified 10. Section 4: SQL in SAS
11. Advanced Programming Techniques Using PROC SQL 12. Deep Dive into PROC SQL 13. Section 5: Data Visualization and Reporting
14. Data Visualization 15. Reporting and Output Delivery System 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Proc Freq

This procedure is primarily used to produce frequency counts. However, what distinguishes this procedure between others is its ability to compute Chi-Square tests, measures of association, and agreement for contingency tables. The syntax of the procedure is as follows:

Proc Freq <options>;
Tables requests < options >;
By variables;
Exact statistic-options </ computation-options>;
Output <OUT = SAS-dataset> options;
Tables requests </options>;
Test options;
Weight variable < / option >;

We will use the simplest form of version of Proc Freq and explore the results in a dataset containing information on the Class, Height, and Weight of children in a school:

Data Class;
Input ID Class $ Height $ Weight $;
Datalines;
1 A Over5.7 Above50 1 0 1
2 A Over5.7 Above50 1 1 0
3 B Over5.7 Below50 1 1 .
4 B Under5.7 Below50 1 1 1
5 A Over5.7 Below50...
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