topic Re: Assigning 2 decimal places for output of Std error of Mean and Std Error of Sum in PROC SURVEYME in SAS Programming

Assigning 2 decimal places for output of Std error of Mean and Std Error of Sum in PROC SURVEYMEANS.

Emma_at_SAS — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:23:52 GMT

I want to limit the decimal places to 2 for the output for STD ERROR of SUM from PROC SURVEYMEANS.

In the following example the Std Error of Sum = 267.928448 but I want it to be 267.93. Thanks

data TEST;
do ID = 1 to 30;
HEIGHT = round(130 + rand('Uniform') * 50, 0.01); /* Heights with 2 decimal places */
WEIGHT = rand('Uniform'); /* Generating random survey weights */
output;
end;
run;

/* Run PROC SURVEYMEANS with weights */
proc surveymeans data=TEST min max sum std mean stderr plots=none;
var HEIGHT;
weight WEIGHT;
run;

Re: Assigning 2 decimal places for output of Std error of Mean and Std Error of Sum in PROC SURVEYME

PaigeMiller — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:42:50 GMT

Write the results to a SAS data set, then apply format 12.2 (or any other format you would like) to the output data set.

ods select none;
ods output statistics=statistics;
/* Run PROC SURVEYMEANS with weights */
proc surveymeans data=TEST min max sum std mean stderr;
var HEIGHT;
weight WEIGHT;
run;
ods select all;

Re: Assigning 2 decimal places for output of Std error of Mean and Std Error of Sum in PROC SURVEYME

Emma_at_SAS — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:04:36 GMT

Thanks @PaigeMiller!

It is interesting that the output from ODS output renames Std Error of MEan to StdErr and renames Std Error of Sum to StdDev and I need to format StdDev. But that solves my problem. Thanks

Re: Assigning 2 decimal places for output of Std error of Mean and Std Error of Sum in PROC SURVEYME

PaigeMiller — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:10:54 GMT

@Emma_at_SAS

When you do a PROC PRINT here, use the LABEL option

proc print data=statistics label;
    format stddev stderr 12.2;
run;