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

START

the starting date of the time series

END

the ending date of the time series

STARTOBS

the beginning observation of the time series

ENDOBS

the ending observation of the time series

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.