MEANS Procedure

Example 1: Computing Specific Descriptive Statistics

Features:

PROC MEANS statement options:: statistic keywords; FW=

VAR statement

Data set:

CAKE

Details

This example does the following:

specifies the analysis variables
computes the statistics for the specified keywords and displays them in order
specifies the field width of the statistics

Program

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

data cake;
   input LastName $ 1-12 Age 13-14 PresentScore 16-17
         TasteScore 19-20 Flavor $ 23-32 Layers 34 ;
   datalines;
Orlando     27 93 80  Vanilla    1
Ramey       32 84 72  Rum        2
Goldston    46 68 75  Vanilla    1
Roe         38 79 73  Vanilla    2
Larsen      23 77 84  Chocolate  .
Davis       51 86 91  Spice      3
Strickland  19 82 79  Chocolate  1
Nguyen      57 77 84  Vanilla    .
Hildenbrand 33 81 83  Chocolate  1
Byron       62 72 87  Vanilla    2
Sanders     26 56 79  Chocolate  1
Jaeger      43 66 74             1
Davis       28 69 75  Chocolate  2
Conrad      69 85 94  Vanilla    1
Walters     55 67 72  Chocolate  2
Rossburger  28 78 81  Spice      2
Matthew     42 81 92  Chocolate  2
Becker      36 62 83  Spice      2
Anderson    27 87 85  Chocolate  1
Merritt     62 73 84  Chocolate  1
;

proc means data=cake n mean max min range std fw=8;

   var PresentScore TasteScore;

   title 'Summary of Presentation and Taste Scores';
run;

Program Description

Set the SAS system options. The NODATE option suppresses the display of the date and time in the output. PAGENO= specifies the starting page number. LINESIZE= specifies the output line length, and PAGESIZE= specifies the number of lines on an output page.

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

Create the CAKE data set. CAKE contains data from a cake-baking contest: each participant's last name, age, score for presentation, score for taste, cake flavor, and number of cake layers. The number of cake layers is missing for two observations. The cake flavor is missing for another observation.

data cake;
   input LastName $ 1-12 Age 13-14 PresentScore 16-17
         TasteScore 19-20 Flavor $ 23-32 Layers 34 ;
   datalines;
Orlando     27 93 80  Vanilla    1
Ramey       32 84 72  Rum        2
Goldston    46 68 75  Vanilla    1
Roe         38 79 73  Vanilla    2
Larsen      23 77 84  Chocolate  .
Davis       51 86 91  Spice      3
Strickland  19 82 79  Chocolate  1
Nguyen      57 77 84  Vanilla    .
Hildenbrand 33 81 83  Chocolate  1
Byron       62 72 87  Vanilla    2
Sanders     26 56 79  Chocolate  1
Jaeger      43 66 74             1
Davis       28 69 75  Chocolate  2
Conrad      69 85 94  Vanilla    1
Walters     55 67 72  Chocolate  2
Rossburger  28 78 81  Spice      2
Matthew     42 81 92  Chocolate  2
Becker      36 62 83  Spice      2
Anderson    27 87 85  Chocolate  1
Merritt     62 73 84  Chocolate  1
;

Specify the analyses and the analysis options. The statistic keywords specify the statistics and their order in the output. FW= uses a field width of eight to display the statistics.

proc means data=cake n mean max min range std fw=8;

Specify the analysis variables. The VAR statement specifies that PROC MEANS calculate statistics on the PresentScore and TasteScore variables.

   var PresentScore TasteScore;

Specify the title.

   title 'Summary of Presentation and Taste Scores';
run;