Saving Summary Statistics

[See MACMA1 in the SAS/QC Sample Library]In this example, the MACHART statement is used to create a summary data set that can be read later by the MACONTROL procedure (as in the preceding example). The following statements read measurements from the data set Clips1 and create a summary data set named Cliphist:

title 'Summary Data Set for Gap Measurements';
proc macontrol data=Clips1;
   machart Gap*Day / span       = 3
                     outhistory = Cliphist
                     nochart;
run;

The OUTHISTORY= option names the output data set, and the NOCHART option suppresses the display of the chart, which would be identical to the chart in Figure 9.5.4.

Figure 9.5.7 contains a partial listing of Cliphist.

There are five variables in the data set Cliphist.

• Day contains the subgroup index.

• GapX contains the subgroup means.

• GapS contains the subgroup standard deviations.

• GapA contains the subgroup moving averages.

• GapN contains the subgroup sample sizes.

Note that the summary statistic variables are named by adding the suffix characters X, S, A, and N to the process Gap specified in the MACHART statement. In other words, the variable naming convention for OUTHISTORY= data sets is the same as that for HISTORY= data sets.

For more information, see OUTHISTORY= Data Set.