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Re: geomean questions.

Re: geomean questions.  
Ken Borowiak
From:Ken Borowiak
Subject:Re: geomean questions.
Date:22 Jan 05 04:05:39 GMT
GEOMEAN is new function in V9. The following (untested) code should work ..
proc sql;
create table geox as
select geomean(x) as geomean_x
from purple_cobras;
quit;



In a message dated 1/21/2005 5:02:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
bhuta_zegha@YAHOO.COM writes:
I think Geometric Mean is not available in any of the PROCs. You might
have to compute is yourself using a data step or something. Note that
the "the geometric mean is the antilog of the arithmetic mean of the
logs". See
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/sample/samp_lib/basesampComputes_Geometric
_Means.html
for details.
   

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