Applied Business Forecasting and Regression Analysis Generating Reports Lecture 9 Reproduced with permission of SAS Institute INC, Cary, NC, USA

PRINT PROCEDURE The PRINT procedure creates a report of the variables and observations in a SAS data set. You can create a variety of reports ranging from a simple listing to a highly customized report that groups the data and calculates totals and subtotals for numeric variables.

PRINT PROCEDURE

PRINT PROCEDURE

NOOBS Option

NOOBS Option

VAR Statement

WHERE Statement

SUM Statement

BY Statement

SUM and BY Statements

PAGEBY Statement

PAGEBY Statement

LABEL Statement

LABEL Statement

FORMAT Statement

FORMAT Statement

FORMAT Statement

FORMAT Statement

LABEL and FORMAT Statements

TITLE Statement

FOOTNOTE Statement

TITLE and FOOTNOTE Statements

OPTIONS Statement

OPTIONS Statement

The FORMAT Procedure

Naming Convention

Single Values

Ranges

Ranges

Keywords

Formatted Values

Creating and Using Formats

The FREQ Procedure Creating Frequency Tables with the FREQ Procedure. The FREQ procedure produces one-way to n-way frequency tables. By default, the procedure generates one-way frequency tables for all data set variables.

The FREQ Procedure

TABLES Statement TABLES Statement The TABLES statement requests one-way to n-way frequency tables and statistics for those tables.

Two-Way Tables Two-Way Tables An asterisk between two variables produces a two-way table.

Two-Way Tables

CROSSLIST Option The CROSSLIST option displays two-way tables in column format, instead of cell format.

CROSSLIST Option

Statistics Options

NLEVELS Option

The MEANS Procedure Creating Summary Reports with the MEANS Procedure The MEANS procedure computes descriptive statistics for variables across all observations and within groups of observations.

The MEANS Procedure

The MEANS Procedure Statistics By default, the MEANS procedure creates a report with N (number of nonmissing values), MEAN, STDDEV, MIN, and MAX.

The MEANS Procedure In the PROC MEANS statement, you can specify which statistics to compute and the order in which to display them in the output.

MAXDEC= Option The MAXDEC= option in the PROC MEANS statement specifies the maximum number of decimal places to display the statistics in the output.

The MEANS Procedure VAR Statement The VAR statement identifies the analysis variables and specifies their order in the results.

The MEANS Procedure CLASS Statement The CLASS statement specifies one or more variables that the procedure uses to group the data.

The MEANS Procedure CLASS Statement Adding a CLASS statement adds the N Obs column.