The STANDARD Procedure

Example 1: Standardizing to a Given Mean and Standard Deviation

Procedure features:

PROC STANDARD statement options:

	MEAN=
	OUT=
	STD=

VAR statement

Other features:

PRINT procedure

This example

standardizes two variables to a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 5
specifies the output data set
combines standardized variables with original variables
prints the output data set.

Program

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60; data score; length Student $ 9; input Student $ StudentNumber Section $ Test1 Test2 Final @@; format studentnumber z4.; datalines; Capalleti 0545 1 94 91 87 Dubose 1252 2 51 65 91 Engles 1167 1 95 97 97 Grant 1230 2 63 75 80 Krupski 2527 2 80 69 71 Lundsford 4860 1 92 40 86 Mcbane 0674 1 75 78 72 Mullen 6445 2 89 82 93 Nguyen 0886 1 79 76 80 Patel 9164 2 71 77 83 Si 4915 1 75 71 73 Tanaka 8534 2 87 73 76 ;

proc standard data=score mean=75 std=5 out=stndtest;

var test1 test2; run;

proc sql; create table combined as select old.student, old.studentnumber, old.section, old.test1, new.test1 as StdTest1, old.test2, new.test2 as StdTest2, old.final from score as old, stndtest as new where old.student=new.student;

proc print data=combined noobs round; title 'Standardized Test Scores for a College Course'; run;

Output

The data set contains variables with both standardized and original values. StdTest1 and StdTest2 store the standardized test scores that PROC STANDARD computes.

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The data set contains variables with both standardized and original values. StdTest1 and StdTest2 store the standardized test scores that PROC STANDARD computes.