The FREQ statement specifies a variable whose values represent the frequency of occurrence of each observation. PROC COUNTREG treats each observation as if it appears n times, where n is the value of the FREQ variable for the observation. If the frequency value is not an integer, it is truncated to an integer; if it is less than 1 or missing, the observation is not used in the model fitting. When the FREQ statement is not specified, each observation is assigned a frequency of 1. If you specify more than one FREQ statement, then the first statement is used.