Date:         Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:02:19 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Rhoads <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Mike Rhoads <RHOADSM1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Simple PROC MEANS question - weighting
Comments: To: data_into_value <ericv_1998@YAHOO.COM>
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Not all that simple a question, actually.

No, I don't know of a way you can selectively weight the mean of just one
variable in a single VAR statement.  However, beginning in version 7 you can
put more than one VAR statement in PROC MEANS, and you can specify WEIGHT=
as a VAR statement option.  So, although I haven't tried it, I suspect that
the following would do what you want:

PROC MEANS etc.
VAR Var1 / WEIGHT=WeightVar;
VAR Other1 Other2 Other3;
other stuff

Mike Rhoads
Westat
RhoadsM1@Westat.com

-----Original Message-----
From: data_into_value [mailto:ericv_1998@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:29 PM
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Subject: Simple PROC MEANS question - weighting


Can I compute a weighted mean for just one variable
     in a VAR list, while reporting unweighted means
     for the other variables?