| The MEANS Procedure |
| Main discussion: | FREQ |
| FREQ variable; |
| Required Arguments |
specifies a numeric variable whose value represents the frequency of the observation. If you use the FREQ statement, then the procedure assumes that each observation represents n observations, where n is the value of variable. If n is not an integer, then SAS truncates it. If n is less than 1 or is missing, then the procedure does not use that observation to calculate statistics.
The sum of the frequency variable represents the total number of observations.
Note: The FREQ variable does not affect how PROC MEANS
identifies multiple extremes when you use the IDGROUP syntax in the OUTPUT
statement. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
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