PROC SURVEYMEANS standard deviation?

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Hi all,

Has anyone tried to compute the standard deviation using the PROC SURVEYMEANS procedure? I noticed that the STD option only produces the standard deviation of the SUM. Any sample code would be helpful.

[Zard · Accepted solution]

PROC SURVEYMEANS does not compute an estimate of the population standard deviation, only the standard error of the mean. You would need to program the standard deviation using a method such as the one described in Sample 45701: Estimating the Standard Deviation of a Variable in a Finite Population.