Date:         Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:04:00 -0700
Reply-To:     "Nordlund, Dan (DSHS)" <NordlDJ@DSHS.WA.GOV>
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From:         "Nordlund, Dan (DSHS)" <NordlDJ@DSHS.WA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Normalization in SAS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of David
> L Cassell
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:21 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Normalization in SAS
>
> NordlDJ@DSHS.WA.GOV wrote:
> >
<<<snip>>>
> >
> >Or if you don't have the ETS module but do have STAT module, then PROC
> >STDIZE.
> >
> >Hope this is helpful,
> >
> >Dan
>
> Umm, Dan, I believe that PROC STANDARD is in Base SAS.  So everyone
> has it.
>
> Still, PROC STDIZE is a good tool to have in the toolbox.  It does a lot
> more than PROC STANDARD, and provides robust and resistant measures
> of location and spread to do the normalization.
>
> HTCT,
> David
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> David L. Cassell
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David,

You are correct (as is usually the case).  Because I can never can remember
which modules various procs are in I actually looked in the SAS help files.
I not sure why I couldn't  see PROC STANDARD in the list.  Maybe the crowd
noise still ringing in my ears from the Seahawks game was affecting my
ability to process info clearly. :-)

Dan

Daniel J. Nordlund
Research and Data Analysis
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
Olympia, WA  98504-5204