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One more option we have i.e OUT. Out option will store the result in new data set which give only count
and percent.

The first line will give missing value of product in the above product.

7.7 PROC MEANS:

Proc means is used to find descriptive statistics for numeric variables.

By default it gives 5 descriptive statistics for all variables. Default statistics are N, MEAN, STD, MIN and
MAX.

SYNTAX:

Proc means data=dsn<options>;

VAR numeric varlist;

By presortedvarlist;

Class varlist;

Output out=newdsn;

RUN;

LIST OF OPTIONS:

N No. of non-missing value

NMISS No. of missing value
MEAN Average value

MEDIAN Middle most value

SUM total value

STD Average of deviation from mean

MAX Maximum value

MIN Minimum value

RANGE Difference between MAX and MIN

NOPRINT Donot display result

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