SAS Procedures Guide

Functional Categories of Base SAS Procedures

Base SAS software provides a variety of procedures that produce reports, compute statistics, and perform utility operations.

Report Writing
These procedures display useful information, such as data listings (detail reports), summary reports, calendars, letters, labels, forms, multipanel reports, and graphical reports:

CALENDAR MEANS^* SQL^*

CHART^* PLOT SUMMARY^*

FORMS PRINT TABULATE^*

FREQ^* REPORT^* TIMEPLOT

*These procedures produce reports and compute statistics.

Statistics
These procedures compute elementary statistical measures which include descriptive statistics based on moments, quantiles, confidence intervals, frequency counts, cross-tabulations, correlations, and distribution tests. They also rank and standardize data:

CHART RANK SUMMARY

CORR REPORT TABULATE

FREQ SQL UNIVARIATE

MEANS STANDARD

Utilities
These procedures perform basic utility operations. They create, edit, sort, and transpose data sets, create and restore transport data sets, create user defined formats, and provide basic file maintenance such as to copy, append, and compare data sets:

APPEND EXPLODE REGISTRY

BMDP^** EXPORT RELEASE^**

CATALOG FORMAT SORT

CIMPORT FSLIST SOURCE^**

COMPARE IMPORT SQL

CONTENTS OPTIONS TAPECOPY^**

CONVERT^** PDS^** TAPELABEL^**

COPY PDSCOPY^** TRANSPOSE

CPORT PMENU TRANTAB

DATASETS PRINTTO

**See the SAS documentation for your operating environment for a description of these procedures.

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CALENDAR	MEANS^*	SQL^*
CHART^*	PLOT	SUMMARY^*
FORMS	PRINT	TABULATE^*
FREQ^*	REPORT^*	TIMEPLOT
*These procedures produce reports and compute statistics.

CHART	RANK	SUMMARY
CORR	REPORT	TABULATE
FREQ	SQL	UNIVARIATE
MEANS	STANDARD

APPEND	EXPLODE	REGISTRY
BMDP^**	EXPORT	RELEASE^**
CATALOG	FORMAT	SORT
CIMPORT	FSLIST	SOURCE^**
COMPARE	IMPORT	SQL
CONTENTS	OPTIONS	TAPECOPY^**
CONVERT^**	PDS^**	TAPELABEL^**
COPY	PDSCOPY^**	TRANSPOSE
CPORT	PMENU	TRANTAB
DATASETS	PRINTTO
**See the SAS documentation for your operating environment for a description of these procedures.