The TIMESERIES Procedure

OUTSUM= Data Set

The OUTSUM= data set contains the variables specified in the BY statement as well as the variables listed below. The OUTSUM= data set records the descriptive statistics for each variable specified in a VAR statement (not the CROSSVAR statement).

Variables related to descriptive statistics are based on the ACCUMULATE= and SETMISSING= options in the ID and VAR statements:

_NAME_

variable name

_STATUS_

status flag that indicates whether the requested analyses were successful

NOBS

number of observations

N

number of nonmissing observations

NMISS

number of missing observations

MINIMUM

minimum value

MAXIMUM

maximum value

AVG

average value

STDDEV

standard deviation

The OUTSUM= data set contains the descriptive statistics of the (accumulated) time series.