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Srigyan
Quartz | Level 8

Is there any macro which can give an exploratory analysis for a dataset and create a dataset for all variable at once, char or numeric both.Whatever not applied for char that will be blank

like

Label-Variable name

Type- i.e. char/date/num

length-length of variable

no of record

nmiss

how many unique value

mean

median

mode

std dev

p value etc

 

 

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Quentin
Super User

If you search over at lexjansen.com for terms like "data dictionary" and "codebook" I think you'll find plenty of user group papers that present macros to do this sort of reporting.

Reeza
Super User
If you have SAS Studio or Enterprise Guide, there's a task called 'Characterize Data' that will do this.

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