SAS only include chi-square output in proc freq

Question

I'm using the following code to do a chi-square test in SAS.

proc freq data=data;
tables var1*var2/chisq;
run;

It gives the output of both chi-square and Fisher's Test. Anyway to only include chi-square test in the output?

Answer 1

You can use ODS SELECT/EXCLUDE to control what is displayed. If you don't want the fishers test you can exclude that table, assuming the table name is FISHERSEXACT.

ods exclude fishersexact; 

Alternatively you can select in only the tables you want and everything else is excluded by default.

ods select crosstabfreqs chisquare;

Answer 2

I do not think you can supress printing some of the tables in PROC FREQ; it seems to me you can supress all, or none.

However, still you can work as follows:

1. First, do a one-off investigation: issue the ods trace on / label before your statement so that the Log contains labels of the ODS tables:

ods trace on / label;
proc freq data=data;
tables var1*var2/chisq;
run;
ods trace off;

Alternatively, find the name of your table in PROC FREQ docs .

2. Once you know the table name, run your code again but this time save the respective ODS table to a regular table. This is done by issuing ods output <ODS=table-name>= <table-to-save-it-into>; in front of your command. Assuming you want to save the ChiSq table the code looks like:

ods output ChiSq=work.my_chisq_table;
proc freq data=data;
tables var1*var2/chisq;
run;

The chi-square table will be saved as work.my_chisq_table and you can print it elsewhere.