The MEANS Procedure

Syntax: MEANS Procedure

Tip:	Supports the Output Delivery System. See Output Delivery System: Basic Concepts in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide for details.
Tip:	You can use the ATTRIB, FORMAT, LABEL, and WHERE statements. See Statements with the Same Function in Multiple Procedures for details. You can also use any global statements. See Global Statements for a list.
Table of Contents:	The MEANS Procedure

PROC MEANS <option(s)> <statistic-keyword(s)>;

BY <DESCENDING> variable-1 <... <DESCENDING> variable-n><NOTSORTED>;

CLASS variable(s) </ option(s)>;

FREQ variable;

ID variable(s);

OUTPUT <OUT=SAS-data-set> <output-statistic-specification(s)>
<id-group-specification(s)> <maximum-id-specification(s)>
<minimum-id-specification(s)> </ option(s)> ;

TYPES request(s);

VAR variable(s) < / WEIGHT=weight-variable>;

WAYS list;

WEIGHT variable;

Task		Statement
Compute descriptive statistics for variables		PROC MEANS
Calculate separate statistics for each BY group		BY
Identify variables whose values define subgroups for the analysis		CLASS
Identify a variable whose values represent the frequency of each observation		FREQ
Include additional identification variables in the output data set		ID
Create an output data set that contains specified statistics and identification variables		OUTPUT
Identify specific combinations of class variables to use to subdivide the data		TYPES
Identify the analysis variables and their order in the results		VAR
Specify the number of ways to make unique combinations of class variables		WAYS
Identify a variable whose values weight each observation in the statistical calculations		WEIGHT

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