The COMPARE Procedure

Example 7: Creating an Output Data Set of Statistics (OUTSTATS=)

Procedure features:

PROC COMPARE statement options:

	NOPRINT
	OUTSTATS=

Data sets:

PROCLIB.EMP95, PROCLIB.EMP96

This example creates an output data set that contains summary statistics for the numeric variables that are compared.

libname proclib 'SAS-data-library';

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=40;

proc sort data=proclib.emp95 out=emp95_byidnum;
   by idnum;
run;

proc sort data=proclib.emp96 out=emp96_byidnum;
   by idnum;
run;

proc compare base=emp95_byidnum compare=emp96_byidnum
             outstats=diffstat noprint;
   id idnum;
run;

proc print data=diffstat noobs;
   title 'The DIFFSTAT Data Set';
run;

Output

The variables are described in Output Statistics Data Set (OUTSTATS=) .

The variables are described in Output Statistics Data Set (OUTSTATS=) .