Date:         Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:49:32 -0800
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Subject:      Re: Why does the Fisher exact test take so long?
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You might want to consider using the OUTPUT statement in PROC FREQ to
get your pvalue statistics instead of ODS OUTPUT.  It was a bit faster
in my testing.

Plus you wont have to fiddle with the output data sets so much to get
your variable _PVALUE.