What Is Proc Means in Sas?

PROC MEANS is a basic procedure within BASE SAS® used primarily for answering questions about quantities (How much?, What is the average?, What is the total?, etc.) ... PROC MEANS can also be used to conduct some basic statistical analysis.

What does Proc mean?

PROC MEANS is one of the most common SAS procedure used for analyzing data. It is mainly used to calculate descriptive statistics such as mean, median, count, sum etc. It can also be used to calculate several other metrics such as percentiles, quartiles, standard deviation, variance and sample t-test.

What does Proc stand for in SAS?

By default,SAS uses the last data file created (i.e., auto) and it provides means for all of the numeric variables in the data file. PROC MEANS ; RUN; Here you see the results of the means procedure from the auto data file.