Many many thanks @Kurt_Bremser . Currently I am dealing with a data which is extracted from PDF and if rounding used, it is giving different result for the same record if rounding is not used. It is interesting.    Thanks once again!   -- Dr. Abhijeet Safai ... View more

I would typically use ordinal.  The Mann-Whitney test is a rank-based test, so the results are invariant under monotonic transformations.  If you have some idea of the underlying distribution, then you could choose that.  However, ordinal will always work.   There is a huge literature on why one should NOT do post hoc power analysis.  That doesn't keep my clients from asking for it.  ... View more

You check for the generation of xml files based on the metadata of the dataset with the help of XML Engine, or you can try the XML mapper for incorporating complicated xml files that need to be transported along with a xml mapper files that defines the strucutre of the xml file to the xml engine. Writing the xml file: http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi29/119-29.pdf ods xml file='C:\workshop\ws119\XML\discharge_print.xml'; proc print noobs data=discharge; run; ods xml close; Reading the xml file: filename defxml "&XMLPATH/CHECK..xml"; filename xmlmap "&SOURCE_PATH/CHECK.map"; libname defxml xml xmlmap=XMLMAP access=READONLY; ... View more

I think you misunderstand formats.  When you see a format explained in the document they will often write: $N8601EHw.d   What this means when disected is, it is a character format - from the $, name is N8601EH, the width should be specified as an integer replacing the w, the .d indicates how many decimals.  For example: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003170493.htm   Now in your example, you have not replaced "w.d" with the relevant information and n8601ehe.d is not the valid name for a format.  Unless you need to specify the width, you can omit it and get the defaults: format SASFILE_END_TIME $N8601EH.; ... View more