Rename the Statistics and Variables
While it’s easy
to build a table that displays the required results, the trick is
to make it look nice. PROC TABULATE is a powerful tool, but it lacks
a sense of aesthetics. Often you will need to get creative with your
syntax to design a more elegant table.
For example, in Output
14.3, you can see that while this table does show the
N and MEAN by gender for each of the row variables, it looks pretty
ugly. It turns out that the N in each column is the same for every
row, so there is a lot of repetitive information in the table.
Output 14.3 Default Table Showing N and MEAN by Gender
We can get rid of the ...
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