Statistical and Reporting SAS® Procedures

Below is the current list of statistical SAS® Procedures based on their strengths. In general, SAS® papers are references by the primary category to avoid any duplications.  See also Statistical Analysis and Data Science.

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1. SAS® Reporting 101: REPORT, TABULATE, ODS, and Microsoft Office, Lauren Haworth

SAS® Procedure

Brief Description of Strength


Proc Freq


Displays sorted and group counts of all unique values and all unique combination of variables.


Proc Means/
Proc Summary


Summarize and save results as dataset.  Confidence Intervals.


Proc Report/

Proc Tabulate


Frequency of categorical variables, descriptive statistics of continuous variables.  Ask me how you can save over 30% of your validation time using Proc Tabulate exclusively to validation all types of summary tables. 

Proc Report Paper


Proc SQL

One-Stop procedure for summary info, subquery to list all details from a summary value as well as many-to-many joins.  Useful to also create macro variables.


Proc Univariate 

Summarize continuous values. 


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