https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/statistics/m-p/20572#M4274 Hi:<BR /> These links represent the first hit on each page using the following search strings (in Google):<BR /> <BR /> Search string: What are descriptive statistics<BR /> <A href="http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statdesc.php" target="_blank">http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statdesc.php</A><BR /> <BR /> Search string: What are summary statistics<BR /> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_statistics" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_statistics</A><BR /> <BR /> Search string: SAS "descriptive statistics"<BR /> <A href="http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/sas/modules/descript.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/sas/modules/descript.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> <BR /> These links represent hits on support.sas.com, when searching with the strings descriptive statistics and summary statistics -- and then looking for the documentation on the procedures that showed up in the first set of hits:<BR /> Proc FREQ documentation:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_freq_sect001.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_freq_sect001.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> Proc UNIVARIATE documentation:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_univariate_sect003.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_univariate_sect003.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> Proc MEANS documentation:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/59565/HTML/default/means-overview.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/59565/HTML/default/means-overview.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> cynthia Fri, 23 May 2008 15:28:18 GMT Cynthia_sas 2008-05-23T15:28:18Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/statistics/m-p/20571#M4273 what are the differences between descriptive statistics and summary statistics?What are the procedures used to get those separately? Fri, 23 May 2008 11:58:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/statistics/m-p/20571#M4273 keen_sas 2008-05-23T11:58:19Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/statistics/m-p/20572#M4274 Hi:<BR /> These links represent the first hit on each page using the following search strings (in Google):<BR /> <BR /> Search string: What are descriptive statistics<BR /> <A href="http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statdesc.php" target="_blank">http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statdesc.php</A><BR /> <BR /> Search string: What are summary statistics<BR /> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_statistics" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_statistics</A><BR /> <BR /> Search string: SAS "descriptive statistics"<BR /> <A href="http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/sas/modules/descript.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/sas/modules/descript.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> <BR /> These links represent hits on support.sas.com, when searching with the strings descriptive statistics and summary statistics -- and then looking for the documentation on the procedures that showed up in the first set of hits:<BR /> Proc FREQ documentation:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_freq_sect001.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_freq_sect001.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> Proc UNIVARIATE documentation:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_univariate_sect003.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/59629/HTML/default/procstat_univariate_sect003.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> Proc MEANS documentation:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/59565/HTML/default/means-overview.htm" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/59565/HTML/default/means-overview.htm</A><BR /> <BR /> cynthia Fri, 23 May 2008 15:28:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/statistics/m-p/20572#M4274 Cynthia_sas 2008-05-23T15:28:18Z