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Steelersgirl
Calcite | Level 5

I am looking at a data set about football players. After I read in the data set, I am trying to calculate the 5-number summary for the passYD variable for only players who position in qb. I want to do this separately for each value of team. This is the code I have been trying

 

DATA NFL;
FILENAME webpage URL 'http://people.stat.sc.edu/hitchcock/nfl_season_data.txt';
infile webpage DLM=',' DSD;
INPUT idcode $ lastname :$20. firstname :$20. year team $ position $ G GS COMP ATT
PassYD PassTD INT rush rushYD rushTD rec recYD recTD;
RUN;


PROC MEANS=PassYD;
WHERE position=qb;
BY team;
RUN;
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Reeza
Super User

@Steelersgirl wrote:

I am looking at a data set about football players. After I read in the data set, I am trying to calculate the 5-number summary for the passYD variable for only players who position in qb. I want to do this separately for each value of team. This is the code I have been trying

 

DATA NFL;
FILENAME webpage URL 'http://people.stat.sc.edu/hitchcock/nfl_season_data.txt';
infile webpage DLM=',' DSD;
INPUT idcode $ lastname :$20. firstname :$20. year team $ position $ G GS COMP ATT
PassYD PassTD INT rush rushYD rushTD rec recYD recTD;
RUN;


PROC MEANS=PassYD;
WHERE position=qb;
BY team;
RUN;

You can specify the statistics desired in the PROC MEANS statement. 

You'll also likely want to capture the output into a data set. 

 

PROC MEANS DATA=NFL N Mean MEdian MIN MAX STD; *list statistics here;

WHERE position='qb'; *note that this is case sensitive;

BY team;

var varName; *list your variable to analyze here ;

ods output summary = want; *store results;
RUN;

Hope that helps.

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ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

What results does the code give?

qd is not a variable is it? it's a value so must be quoted.

Reeza
Super User

@Steelersgirl wrote:

I am looking at a data set about football players. After I read in the data set, I am trying to calculate the 5-number summary for the passYD variable for only players who position in qb. I want to do this separately for each value of team. This is the code I have been trying

 

DATA NFL;
FILENAME webpage URL 'http://people.stat.sc.edu/hitchcock/nfl_season_data.txt';
infile webpage DLM=',' DSD;
INPUT idcode $ lastname :$20. firstname :$20. year team $ position $ G GS COMP ATT
PassYD PassTD INT rush rushYD rushTD rec recYD recTD;
RUN;


PROC MEANS=PassYD;
WHERE position=qb;
BY team;
RUN;

You can specify the statistics desired in the PROC MEANS statement. 

You'll also likely want to capture the output into a data set. 

 

PROC MEANS DATA=NFL N Mean MEdian MIN MAX STD; *list statistics here;

WHERE position='qb'; *note that this is case sensitive;

BY team;

var varName; *list your variable to analyze here ;

ods output summary = want; *store results;
RUN;

Hope that helps.

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