Understanding the Charting Tools

Base SAS software provides two procedures that produce charts:
  • PROC CHART
  • PROC UNIVARIATE
PROC CHART produces a variety of charts for character or numeric variables. The charts include vertical and horizontal bar charts, block charts, pie charts, and star charts. These types of charts graphically display the values of a variable or a statistic that are associated with those values. PROC UNIVARIATE produces histograms for continuous numeric variables that enable you to visualize the distribution of your data.
PROC CHART is a useful tool to visualize data quickly. However, you can use PROC GCHART (footnote1) to produce high-resolution, publication-quality bar charts that include color and various ...

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