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SAS Output Delivery System

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You set the default output to include HTML pages.

Erase the title and footnote.

Control

• Say you want only the contingency table and the chi-square statistic…

• Play with the code.

Not needed

Fix the file name.

Remove the extra stuff

Notice the output is generating two tables. I want to know the names so I can cut down the second table to only include the first Chi-Square.

crosstabfreqs

chisq

Request the names of the output tables in the log

Turn it off.

ODS voodoo

• For procedures that generate a lot of output-tables you can tell it which to select or exclude.

• You can tell SAS to save the output of a table into a dataset (usually in the work library).

Same info in work and the report

Print Chi-squareNotice the filter

Remember the ;

This works but has an extra table

Don’t display the statistics

• You can turn off all the output and still have it write the table of statistics into the work library. The ODS destination name

Calculate the chi-square

Print the table without doing the statistics.

Solution

Cleaning Up

• Macros (and other SAS programs) often use temporary datasets. It is good form to delete them. This code silently deletes the theChi table from the work library:

The Macro