topic Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE in SAS Studio

How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

aabbccwyt — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 01:35:09 GMT

Hi,

The assignment I'm working asks me to use proc univariate to explore the 8 extreme observations in a worksheet, so I used the SAS Documentation and it says to use

nextrobs=8;

which gives me an error: ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

Can anyone tell me how to fix it? Thank you.

Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

SASKiwi — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 01:50:39 GMT

NEXTROBS isn't a separate statement it is an option on the UNIVARIATE statement. See example here: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=procstat&docsetTarget=procstat_univariate_examples03.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

mintbit — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:40:10 GMT

i have a question relating to this. The nextrob option is not in parentheses but the (obs=n) is. are they not both options? How do I know when to put something in parentheses?

Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

Tom — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:24:36 GMT

@mintbit wrote:
i have a question relating to this. The nextrob option is not in parentheses but the (obs=n) is. are they not both options? How do I know when to put something in parentheses?

OBS= is a Dataset Option. Like KEEP= or RENAME=. Those always appear in parentheses after a dataset name. They are totally independent of PROC UNIVARIATE. You can use dataset options pretty much anywhere you use a dataset name.

NEXTROB is an optional part the PROC UNIVARIATE statement.

Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

mintbit — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:32:34 GMT

Thank you for the reply Tom. Now I understand better.

Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

Qingwei — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:40:01 GMT

use codes like below:

ods select extremeobs;
proc univariate data=pg1.eu_occ nextrobs=10;
var camp;
run;
ods trace off;

Re: How to change the number of extreme observations of PROC UNIVARIATE

coder1234 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:56:16 GMT

ODS select  ExtremeObs;

proc univariate data=data.lib
	nextrobs=8;
	Var abc def;
Run;