Comments on: SAS Macro Variables: How to Take a Mean in SAS

By: MS

MS — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:29:41 +0000

How would you do this if you have more than one variable that you want to standardize, for example, age of tree? It seems that symput would only take the value of the variable for the first observation in the meansd table.
thanks.

By: Damwal

Damwal — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:26:09 +0000

Hi! I really like your solution – thanks to it I’ve learned some new things about macro variables.
Another way you can deal with this type of operations is to add statistics to your main dataset and then make all the operations on variables. Please find the example below

data trees;
if _N_=1 then set meansd(keep=meanheight sdheight);
set trees;
standardized=(height-meanheight)/sdheight;
run;

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