PROC MEANS - Improve on the default

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PROC MEANS great for summary statistics occassionally disappointing Some surprise conveniences (did you expect more than one output data set from just one pass?)

packaging PROC MEANS

sometimes this is very helpful. For a discussion on the topic, see SUGI 31 paper entitled "A Better Means — The ODS Data Trap". Myra A. Oltsik and Peter Crawford.

There is a a corrected and updated version of the macro %better_means(). message added by Peter Crawford 20:42 27/05/2008 BST