The STDIZE Procedure
BY variables ;
You can specify a BY statement in PROC STDIZE to obtain separate analyses of observations in groups that are defined by the BY variables. When a BY statement appears, PROC STDIZE expects the input data set to be sorted in order of the BY variables. If you specify more than one BY statement, only the last one specified is used.
If your input data set is not sorted in ascending order, use one of the following alternatives:
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Sort the data by using the SORT procedure and a similar BY statement.
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Specify the NOTSORTED or DESCENDING option in the BY statement for the STDIZE procedure. The NOTSORTED option does not mean that the data are unsorted but rather that the data are arranged in groups (according to values of the BY variables) and that these groups are not necessarily in alphabetical or increasing numeric order.
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Create an index on the BY variables by using the DATASETS procedure (in Base SAS software).
When you specify the option METHOD=IN(ds), the following rules are applied to BY-group processing:
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If the
dsdata set does not contain any of the BY variables, the entire DATA= data set is standardized by the location and scale measures (along with the constants for addition and multiplication) in thedsdata set. -
If the
dsdata set contains some, but not all, of the BY variables or if some BY variables do not have the same type or length in thedsdata set that they have in the DATA= data set, PROC STDIZE displays an error message and stops. -
If all of the BY variables appear in the
dsdata set with the same type and length as in the DATA= data set, each BY group in the DATA= data set is standardized using the location and scale measures (along with the constants for addition and multiplication) from the corresponding BY group in thedsdata set. The BY groups in thedsdata set must be in the same order in which they appear in the DATA= data set. All BY groups in the DATA= data set must also appear in thedsdata set. If you do not specify the NOTSORTED option, some BY groups can appear in thedsdata set but not in the DATA= data set; such BY groups are not used in standardizing data.
For more information about BY-group processing, see SAS Language Reference: Concepts. For more information about the DATASETS procedure, see Base SAS Procedures Guide.