Tag: PROC TABULATE

Proc report for simple statistics

Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc report. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to re…

Proc tabulate for simple statistics (corrected)

Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc tabulate. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to …

Proc tabulate for simple statistics (corrected)

Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc tabulate. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to …

A Google Fight is not a fair fight

At least, that’s according to my colleague, Rick Wicklin.  In a recent blog post, Rick points out that estimating popularity based on results of Google searches is a bad idea. Well, that just disqualified my claim that PROC REPORT is more popular than…

PROC REPORT versus TABULATE: two SAS heavyweights

The question came up on the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum: which do you prefer, List Report Wizard (PROC REPORT) or Summary Tables (PROC TABULATE)?

And as with most SAS-related questions, the proper response is: “it depends.” If you put …