Base SAS 9.1 Procedures Guide, Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4
Functional Categories of Base SAS Procedures
Report Writing
These procedures display useful information, such as data listings (detail reports), summary reports , calendars, letters , labels, multipanel reports, and graphical reports:
| CALENDAR | PLOT | SUMMARY [*] |
| CHART [*] | | TABULATE [*] |
| FREQ [*] | REPORT [*] | TIMEPLOT |
| MEANS [*] | SQL [*] | |
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[*] These procedures produce reports and compute statistics. | ||
Statistics
These procedures compute elementary statistical measures that include descriptive statistics based on moments, quantiles, confidence intervals, frequency counts, cross-tabulations, correlations , and distribution tests. They also rank and standardize data:
| CHART | RANK | SUMMARY |
| CORR | REPORT | TABULATE |
| FREQ | SQL | UNIVARIATE |
| MEANS | STANDARD |
Utilities
These procedures perform basic utility operations. They create, edit, sort , and transpose data sets, create and restore transport data sets, create user -defined formats, and provide basic file maintenance such as to copy, append, and compare data sets:
| APPEND | EXPORT | PWENCODE |
| BMDP [*] | FONTREG | PRTEXP |
| CATALOG | FORMAT | REGISTRY [*] |
| CIMPORT | FSLIST | RELEASE |
| COMPARE | IMPORT | SORT |
| CONTENTS | OPTIONS | SOURCE [*] |
| CONVERT [*] | OPTLOAD | SQL |
| COPY | OPTSAVE | TAPECOPY [*] |
| CPORT | PDS [*] | TAPELABEL [*] |
| CV2VIEW [@] | PDSCOPY [*] | TEMPLATE [+] |
| DATASETS | PMENU | TRANSPOSE |
| DBCSTAB [#] | PRINTTO | TRANTAB [#] |
| DOCUMENT [+] | PRTDEF | |
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[*] See the SAS documentation for your operating environment for a description of these procedures.
[@] See SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference for a description of this procedure.
[+] See The Complete Guide to the SAS Output Delivery System for a description of these procedures.
[#] See SAS National Language Support (NLS): User s Guide for a description of these procedures. | ||