Quick Tips

  • The simplest table possible in PROC TABULATE has to have three things: a PROC TABULATE statement, a TABLE statement, and a CLASS or VAR statement.
  • If the variable in your table is an analysis variable, then the statistic that you will get by default is the sum.
  • It’s always better to specify the statistic explicitly than to let PROC TABULATE select the default.
  • Variables in the CLASS statement are used to determine categories.
  • Variables in the VAR statement are used to calculate statistics.
  • See Available Statistics for a list of the available statistics and their keywords.
  • Make sure class variables are categorical, not continuous.
  • The asterisk is a PROC TABULATE nesting operator. Use an asterisk ...

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