topic SAS macro to identify Continuous or Categorical Variables in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/SAS-macro-to-identify-Continuous-or-Categorical-Variables/m-p/207695#M51564 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Forum,</P><P></P><P>I wonder if there is SAS macro or another way to identify the variable types.&nbsp;&nbsp; This paper mentions about it but macro is not provided.&nbsp; Thank you.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/088-28.pdf" title="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/088-28.pdf">http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/088-28.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:00:24 GMT kaushal2040 2015-04-30T22:00:24Z SAS macro to identify Continuous or Categorical Variables https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/SAS-macro-to-identify-Continuous-or-Categorical-Variables/m-p/207695#M51564 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello Forum,</P><P></P><P>I wonder if there is SAS macro or another way to identify the variable types.&nbsp;&nbsp; This paper mentions about it but macro is not provided.&nbsp; Thank you.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/088-28.pdf" title="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/088-28.pdf">http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/088-28.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:00:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/SAS-macro-to-identify-Continuous-or-Categorical-Variables/m-p/207695#M51564 kaushal2040 2015-04-30T22:00:24Z Re: SAS macro to identify Continuous or Categorical Variables https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/SAS-macro-to-identify-Continuous-or-Categorical-Variables/m-p/207696#M51565 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What are your rules for defining a variable as continuous or categorical? Usually the NLEVELS option in proc freq comes in handy. And what type of output would you be looking for, i.e. why categorize them in the first place?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 May 2015 00:41:50 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/SAS-macro-to-identify-Continuous-or-Categorical-Variables/m-p/207696#M51565 Reeza 2015-05-01T00:41:50Z