[…] Because histograms are created by binning the data, they are not always the best way to visualize a sample distribution. You can create normal quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plots to compare the empirical quantiles for the simulated data to the theoretical quantiles for normally distributed data. The following statements use PROC RANK to create the normal Q-Q plots, as explained in a previous article about how to create Q-Q plots in SAS: …