The HPDMDB Procedure

VAR Statement

Required Argument

VAR variables ;

The VAR statement specifies one or more numeric variables to analyze. The CLASS and VAR statements are mutually exclusive.

Required Argument

variables

specifies one or more numeric variables to be used in the analysis. The variables must be numeric. For each variable, the VAROUT data set and the metadata contain the following statistics:

Table 5.2: Statistics Recorded for VAR Variables

Statistic	Meaning
N	Number of observations
NMISS	Number of observations that contain a missing value
MIN	Minimum observed value
MAX	Maximum observed value
MEAN	Mean of observed values
STD	Standard deviation
SKEWNESS	Measure of asymmetry
KURTOSIS	Measure of the “heaviness of the tails”
SUM	Sum of all nonmissing observations
CSS	Corrected sum of squares
USS	Sum of squares

(See Appendix 1, “SAS Elementary Statistics Procedures” in Base SAS Procedures Guide, for formulas and other details.)