Overview
Since the release of SAS 8, programmers and analysts have been eager to take advantage of the Output Delivery System (ODS). This Object Oriented feature works with PROC PRINT, PROC TABULATE, PROC REPORT and Data _NULL_ and can be used to produce calculated summary statistics using Base SAS and STAT procedures, such as FREQ, MEANS, SUMMARY, UNIVARIATE, ANOVA, GLM, MIXED, and REG. The ODS feature allows programmers and analysts to create output with greater clarity and better aesthetics for their readers. Output can be managed with proportional fonts, embedded images and non-tabular layouts. This paper shows how an ODS template was created to generate output for several platforms.
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