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The MEANS Procedure

FREQ Statement


Specifies a numeric variable that contains the frequency of each observation.

Main discussion: FREQ


FREQ variable;


Required Arguments

variable
specifies a numeric variable whose value represents the frequency of the observation. If you use the FREQ statement, the procedure assumes that each observation represents n observations, where n is the value of variable. If n is not an integer, the SAS System truncates it. If n is less than 1 or is missing, the procedure does not use that observation to calculate statistics.

The sum of the frequency variable represents the total number of observations.

Note:   The FREQ variable does not affect how PROC MEANS identifies multiple extremes when you use the IDGROUP syntax in the OUTPUT statement.  [cautionend]


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