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Maisha_Huq
Quartz | Level 8

Hello:

 

Would someone be able to share if it's possible to specify proc means to only output for continuous variables in a dataset? If so, how?

 

Thank you in advance!

 

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Reeza
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There is no way to define a 'continuous' variable. You can specify numeric vs character, but ordinal/categorical variables may be numeric as well. You can use variable short hand notation to list variables in a multiple ways, see the documentation:

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000695105.htm

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Reeza
Super User
There is no way to define a 'continuous' variable. You can specify numeric vs character, but ordinal/categorical variables may be numeric as well. You can use variable short hand notation to list variables in a multiple ways, see the documentation:

https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000695105.htm
Maisha_Huq
Quartz | Level 8

Thank you, Reeza!

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