topic Re: Decimal places in proc means in SAS Programming

Decimal places in proc means

Jems — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:07:08 GMT

When i am using proc means for a variable the one observation is giving 3 and other 2 decimal places in output, how to keep 3 decimal places for all observations.

Re: Decimal places in proc means

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:10:53 GMT

Hi:
Research the MAXDEC= option of PROC MEANS.
cynthia

Re: Decimal places in proc means

kurp — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:04:46 GMT

I believe it's important to mention here that - according to documentation - MAXDEC specifies the maximum number of decimal places only to display the statistics in the printed or displayed output. It has no effect on statistics that are saved in an output data set.

I'm looking for solution to similar problem. Is there any simple way to get the rounded values directly from PROC MEANS?

Re: Decimal places in proc means

error_prone — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:11:28 GMT

Afaik, no, rounding is not possible.

Re: Decimal places in proc means

xxformat_com — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:14:07 GMT

Well, it's correct that the option maxdec does not work with "output out=" statement.

But if you use "ods output summary=", then the option maxdec works.