Proc univariate

[ericageiger]

Hello,

I am a student trying to perform a proc univariate on my data, however I had to recode my data and now the variables are character variables instead of numeric. I keep getting the ERROR: Variable Diabetes in list does not match type prescribed for this list.

I realize it is due to the fact that it is not in numerical form, but how else would I go about performing this procedure? Or is there a statement needed for SAS to assign the characters to numeric form. 


Thank you so much! 


[PaigeMiller]

How else would you go about performing this procedure?

It's really not clear what you mean, there is no logical way to do something like a PROC UNIVARIATE on character variables. So this is NOT a SAS issue in any way. And you haven't explained what the variable diabetes is, or why you recoded it to character.

[AlanC]

Can you please tell us how you are bringing in the data? This is an easy fix but it is easiest to fix coming in vs once it is there.

[Reeza]

If your variable is categorical you likely want count summaries instead and that lends itself to PROC FREQ, not PROC UNIVARIATE. 

Statistical summaries, such as means/medians don't make sense for a categorical variable. 

If you're trying to group your summaries by the categorical variable include it in your CLASS statement.