Overview
Introduction
As
you have seen, one of the many features of PROC REPORT is the
ability to summarize large amounts of data by producing descriptive
statistics. However, there are SAS procedures that are designed
specifically to produce various types of descriptive statistics and
to display them in meaningful reports. The type of descriptive
statistics that you need and the SAS procedure that you should use
depend on whether you need to summarize continuous data values or
discrete data values.
If
the data values that you want to describe are continuous numeric
values (for example, people's ages), then you can use the MEANS
procedure or the SUMMARY procedure to calculate statistics such as
the mean, sum, minimum, and maximum.
MEANS ...
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