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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 Means and Summary

In the earlier versions of SAS, Proc Means and Summary had distinct features. Over the last few versions, the only difference between the two procedures are as follows:

  • Proc Means outputs the results in the listing window or in any other open output destination, whereas Proc Summary creates a dataset by default. You cannot execute a Proc Summary without an output statement.
  • In the absence of a Var statement, Proc Means analyzes all numeric variables. Proc Summary, in the same situation, only produces a count of the observations.

Proc Means

The simplest form of Proc Means is as follows:

Proc Means Data = Transactions;
Run;

This will give us the following output:

We can also add a Class variable to the...

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