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ervinodsingh
Obsidian | Level 7

I have calculated the mean of a variable using MEAN proc, now I want to use mean value for further calculation. Please help me to reuse or save the calculated mean value for further use.

 

data test; 
input x ; 
cards; 
100 
200 
300 
; 
run; 

proc means data=test; 
var x; 

run; 
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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

You can output to dataset from that in a variety of ways (the manual is your friend), you could do;

proc means data=test; 
  var x; 
  output out=want mean=mean;
run; 
ervinodsingh
Obsidian | Level 7

Thanks your solution also worked for me.

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