Overview
Why two chapters on
a single statistic? Because percentages are different from other statistics.
In most cases, changing the statistic displayed in a PROC TABULATE
table is as simple as changing the statistic name in the TABLE statement.
For example, you can
take your PROC TABULATE code and switch the statistic keyword MEAN
to N or MAX with no other changes to the TABLE statement, and your
new table will show the number of observations or the maximum value
in each cell instead of the mean.
Percentages are different.
In all but the simplest cases, you need to change the syntax of the
TABLE statement to get the percentage that you want.
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