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Choosing the Right Procedure

Functional Categories of Base SAS Procedures


Report Writing

These procedures display useful information, such as data listings (detail reports), summary reports, calendars, letters, labels, multipanel reports, and graphical reports.

CALENDAR PLOT SUMMARY*
CHART* PRINT TABULATE*
FREQ* REPORT* TIMEPLOT
MEANS* SQL*
* These procedures produce reports and compute statistics.


Statistics

These procedures compute elementary statistical measures that include descriptive statistics based on moments, quantiles, confidence intervals, frequency counts, crosstabulations, correlations, and distribution tests. They also rank and standardize data.

CHART RANK SUMMARY
CORR REPORT TABULATE
FREQ SQL UNIVARIATE
MEANS STANDARD


Utilities

These procedures perform basic utility operations. They create, edit, sort, and transpose data sets, create and restore transport data sets, create user-defined formats, and provide basic file maintenance such as to copy, append, and compare data sets.

APPEND FONTREG PRINTTO
BMDP* FORMAT PROTO
CATALOG FSLIST PRTDEF
CIMPORT IMPORT PRTEXP
COMPARE INFOMAPS++ PWENCODE
CONTENTS JAVAINFO REGISTRY
CONVERT* METADATA@@ RELEASE*
COPY METALIB@@ SORT
CPORT METAOPERATE@@ SOURCE*
CV2VIEW@ MIGRATE SQL
DATASETS OPTIONS TAPECOPY*
DBCSTAB# OPTLOAD TAPELABEL*
DISPLAY OPTSAVE TEMPLATE+
DOCUMENT+ PDS* TRANSPOSE
EXPORT PDSCOPY* TRANTAB#
FCMP PMENU XSL
* See the SAS documentation for your operating environment for a description of this procedure.

+ See the SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide for a description of these procedures.

@ See the SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference for a description of this procedure.

# See the SAS National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide for a description of this procedure.

** See the SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files: Reference for a description of this procedure.

++ See the Base SAS Guide to Information Maps for a description of this procedure.

@@ See the SAS Language Interfaces to Metadata for a description of this procedure.

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