Strengthen your programming skills with tips and techniques from the experts
![How to get the statistics you need from SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/07/tasklist.png)
If you need to calculate the mean, sum, standard deviation, or frequency count for a variable, you'll find it pretty easy to accomplish in SAS Enterprise Guide. The corresponding tasks in the menus have names like "Summary Statistics" or "One-way Frequencies". Obvious, right? Often, researchers or students have a quest