Anyone Can Learn PROC TABULATE英语教案.pdf

SUGI 27 Beginning Tutorials Paper 60-27 Anyone Can Learn PROC TABULATE Lauren Haworth, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA ABSTRACT PROC TABULATE DATA=TEMP; SAS® Software provides hundreds of ways you can ana- TABLE RENT; RUN; lyze your data. You can use the DATA step to slice and dice your data, and there are dozens of procedures that If you run this code as is, you will get an error message will process your data and produce all kinds of statistics. because TABULATE can’t figure out whether the vari- But odds are that no matter how you organize and analyze able RENT is intended as an analysis variable, which is your data, you’ll end up producing a report in the form of used to compute statistics, or a classification variable, a table. which is used to define categories in the table. This is why every SAS user needs to know how to use In this case, we want to use rent as the analysis variable. PROC TABULATE. While TABULATE doesn’t do any- We will be using it to compute a statistic. To tell thing that you can’t do with other PROCs, the payoff is in TABULATE that RENT is an analysis variable, you use a the output. TABULATE computes a