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Statements with the Same Function in Multiple Procedures |
Tip: | You can use a WEIGHT statement and a FREQ statement in the same step of any procedure that supports both statements. |
FREQ variable; |
Required Arguments |
The sum of the frequency variable represents the total number of observations.
Procedures That Support the FREQ Statement |
Note: PROC
FORMS does not calculate statistics. In PROC FORMS, the
value of the frequency variable affects the number of form units that are
printed for each observation.
Example |
The following PROC MEANS step does not use a frequency variable:
options nodate pageno=1 linesize=64 pagesize=40; data track; input Course Speed Hours @@; datalines; 30 4 8 50 7 20 75 10 30 30 8 10 80 9 22 20 8 25 83 11 6 20 6 20 ;
proc means data=track maxdec=2 n mean; var course speed; title 'Average Course and Speed'; run;Without a frequency variable, each observation has a frequency of 1, and the total number of observations is 8.
The second PROC MEANS step uses Hours as a frequency variable:
proc means data=track maxdec=2 n mean; var course speed; freq hours; title 'Average Course and Speed'; run;When you use Hours as a frequency variable, the frequency of each observation is the value of Hours, and the total number of observations is 141 (the sum of the values of the frequency variable).
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