General Approach to Obtaining Statistics

The previous sections show you how to extract / -values for a commonly used set of statistical tests. This section describes a general step-by-step approach for getting your statistics from a SAS procedure into data sets for clinical trial table or graph reporting. Here are the steps to follow  

Determine what statistics you need in your table by looking at the listing destination output of your statistical procedure. 

Check the SAS procedure syntax to see if there is an output data set that will provide you with the values you need. The output data sets from the SAS procedures are usually friendlier to use than the ODS OUTPUT data sets. 

If you cannot find what you need in an output data set from the statistical procedure, use ODS OUTPUT to send your statistics to a data set. To determine 

Then go to your SAS log to see what tables the SAS procedure makes. Each block of text in your SAS listing output typically translates into a SAS data set in ODS. You can see what each table is called by looking at the Output Added blocks in your SAS log. These blocks look something like this  

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