I think the answer depends on the "display tool". PROC TABULATE/REPORT/MEANS/PRINT/ something else. and how the data are displayed, stats in rows vs stats in columns that sort of thing.

In certain situations Formats are inherited by summary statistics.

Supply more specific information.

On 3/16/10, Judy <statpan@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to display the mean/min/max of the data for ten variables. Each > variable has different precision in the original data. Is there an > easy way in SAS to define the decimal point of the summary statistics > according to the data, like what “precision.digit” does in Splus? > Thanks, >