STANDARD Procedure

Tips:

Supports the Output Delivery System. For details, see Output Delivery System: Basic Concepts in SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

You can use the ATTRIB, FORMAT, LABEL, and WHERE statements.

Syntax

PROC STANDARD <option(s)>;

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

FREQ variable;

VAR variable(s);

WEIGHT variable;

Statement	Task	Example
PROC STANDARD Statement	Standardize variables to a given mean and standard deviation	Ex. 1, Ex. 2
BY Statement	Calculate separate standardized values for each BY group	Ex. 2
FREQ Statement	Identify a variable whose values represent the frequency of each observation
VAR Statement	Select the variables to standardize and determine the order in which they appear in the printed output	Ex. 1
WEIGHT Statement	Identify a variable whose values weight each observation in the statistical calculations