Choosing the Right Procedure |
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* | TABULATE* | |
FREQ* | REPORT* | TIMEPLOT |
MEANS* | SQL* |
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* 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.
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