Question

What it's the difference between PROC MEANS and PROC SUMMARY?

Answer 1

PROC MEANS: It refers to the subgroup of statist created in the persistence of the BY statement.

PROC SUMMARY: It is the support statistic giving all varieties of information running simultaneously.

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Answer 2

1. Proc MEANS by default produces printed output in the OUTPUT window whereas Proc SUMMARY does not. Inclusion of the PRINT option on the Proc SUMMARY statement will output results to the output window.

2. Omitting the var statement in PROC MEANS analyses all the numeric variable whereas Omitting the variable statement in PROC SUMMARY produces a simple count of observation.

How to produce output in the OUTPUT window using PROC SUMMARY?

Use PRINT option.

proc summary data=retail print;

 class services;

 var investment;

run;