topic How to limit the number of decimal places in an output from proc means in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29498#M6934 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>PROC MEANS has the option of MAXDEC which can control the number of decimal places in the output. But this option cannot exert control for the output data.</P><P></P><P>PROC MEANS DATA=work.model MEAN;</P><P>VAR _all_;</P><P>OUTPUT OUT=work.param(DROP=_NAME_ _TYPE_ _FREQ_ modelid) MEAN=;</P><P>RUN;</P><P></P><P>In this way, all variables in the outoput will have many decimal places.</P><P></P><P>Maybe I need to manually use a FORMAT statement to change this?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:06:19 GMT Ruth 2011-07-12T15:06:19Z How to limit the number of decimal places in an output from proc means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29498#M6934 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>PROC MEANS has the option of MAXDEC which can control the number of decimal places in the output. But this option cannot exert control for the output data.</P><P></P><P>PROC MEANS DATA=work.model MEAN;</P><P>VAR _all_;</P><P>OUTPUT OUT=work.param(DROP=_NAME_ _TYPE_ _FREQ_ modelid) MEAN=;</P><P>RUN;</P><P></P><P>In this way, all variables in the outoput will have many decimal places.</P><P></P><P>Maybe I need to manually use a FORMAT statement to change this?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:06:19 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29498#M6934 Ruth 2011-07-12T15:06:19Z How to limit the number of decimal places in an output from proc means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29499#M6935 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The mean should inherit the FORMAT associated with the analysis variables.&nbsp; Then you can have difference formats for each variable if needed. </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:11:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29499#M6935 data_null__ 2011-07-12T15:11:52Z How to limit the number of decimal places in an output from proc means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29500#M6936 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>The decimal places are inherited from the proc logistic. They are the parameter estimates as </P>OUTEST=. So I need to control the decimal places at the proc logistic step.<P></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:31:38 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29500#M6936 Ruth 2011-07-12T15:31:38Z How to limit the number of decimal places in an output from proc means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29501#M6937 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> In that case I would just use a format statment for the VARS in PROC MEANS.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:37:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-limit-the-number-of-decimal-places-in-an-output-from-proc/m-p/29501#M6937 data_null__ 2011-07-12T15:37:51Z