topic How to use proc means to get the standard statistics numbers in SAS Programming

How to use proc means to get the standard statistics numbers

Phil_NZ — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:41:37 GMT

Hi SAS community!

Regarding getting some standard statistics number, I usually proc sort then using proc means to do so.

My data is as below (I also attached a datafile contains one sample of my whole dataset). While Type indicates the companies, Country is 2-digit of country. My column of interest is amihud. The dataset included contains data from a lot of different countries. What I want is to receive some data statistics summary for each country containing: median, mean, p1, p5, p90, p95, p99 of variable amihud (especially it is good if the code relates to proc means)

Many thanks in advance!

Type	year	amihud	Country
772086	1989	.	AR
982616	1989	.	AR
982620	1989	.	AR
982629	1989	.	AR
982694	1989	.	AR
992128	1989	.	AR
992156	1989	.	AR
992183	1989	.	AR
992260	1989	.	AR
992280	1989	.	AR
772086	1990	.	AR
982616	1990	.	AR
982620	1990	.	AR
982629	1990	.	AR
982694	1990	.	AR
992128	1990	.	AR
992156	1990	.	AR
992183	1990	.	AR
992260	1990	.	AR
992280	1990	.	AR
772086	1991	.	AR

Re: How to use proc means to get the standard statistics numbers

PaigeMiller — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:37:15 GMT

You show an example where AMIHUD is always missing. I assume that's not always the case. So this ought to work (but I can't test it).

proc summary nway data=have;
     class country;
     var amihud;
     output out=_stats_ mean=/autoname;
run;

Re: How to use proc means to get the standard statistics numbers

ballardw — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:51:52 GMT

Where @PaigeMiller has the Mean= you would place ALL of your desired statistics:

median= mean= p1= p5= p90= p95= p99= /autoname ;

The autoname will append the statistic name to the variable so you can tell which stat is which in the data set.

You may want the option NWAY on the proc statement or you will get a summary overall across all countries as well.

Re: How to use proc means to get the standard statistics numbers

PaigeMiller — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:02:21 GMT

Good catch, @ballardw