PROC ANOM and General Statements

Using the ANOM Procedure

The PROC ANOM statement invokes the ANOM procedure and it optionally identifies various data sets.

To create an ANOM chart, you specify a chart statement (after the PROC ANOM statement) that specifies the type of ANOM chart you want to create and the variables in the input data set that you want to analyze. For example, the following statements request a basic ANOM chart for treatment means:

proc anom data=Values;
   xchart Weight*Treatment;
run;

Here, the DATA= option specifies an input data set (Values) that contains the response measurement variable (Weight) and the group-variable (Treatment). You can use options in the PROC ANOM statement to

• specify input data sets containing variables to be analyzed, decision limits, and annotation information

• specify a graphics catalog for saving graphical output

Note: If you are learning to use the ANOM procedure, you should read both this section and the "Getting Started" subsection in the section for the chart statement that corresponds to the chart you want to create.