| Choosing the Right Procedure |
| Report Writing |
These procedures display useful information, such as data listings (detail reports), summary reports, calendars, letters, labels, multipanel reports, and graphical reports.
| CALENDAR | PLOT | SUMMARY* |
| CHART* | TABULATE* | |
| FREQ* | REPORT* | TIMEPLOT |
| MEANS* | SQL* |
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| * These procedures produce reports and compute statistics. | ||
| Statistics |
These procedures compute elementary statistical measures that include descriptive statistics based on moments, quantiles, confidence intervals, frequency counts, crosstabulations, 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.
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