The TIMEDATA Procedure

OUTSUM= Data Set

The OUTSUM= data set contains the variables that are specified in the BY statement as and the variables in the following list. The OUTSUM= data set records the descriptive statistics for each variable specified in a VAR 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

_SERIES_

count of the series processed in each BY group

START

the starting date of each series

END

the ending date of each series

STARTOBS

the beginning observation number of each series

ENDOBS

the ending observation number of each series

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.