https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663196#M197925 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data want; set your_data; var3=mean(var2,var1); run;</CODE></PRE> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:09:19 GMT novinosrin 2020-06-18T15:09:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663195#M197924 <P>Given the following dataset:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="zihdonv19_0-1592492760017.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/46353i0C6EC16485B8E291/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="zihdonv19_0-1592492760017.png" alt="zihdonv19_0-1592492760017.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I want to create a new variable"VAR3" which is the mean of "VAR1" and "VAR2" for each observation, how can i do that in SAS?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>thanks!</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:07:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663195#M197924 zihdonv19 2020-06-18T15:07:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663196#M197925 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data want; set your_data; var3=mean(var2,var1); run;</CODE></PRE> Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:09:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663196#M197925 novinosrin 2020-06-18T15:09:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663197#M197926 thanks! Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:10:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/About-calculating-means/m-p/663197#M197926 zihdonv19 2020-06-18T15:10:09Z