* NIST Example -- nist.sas source code;

* Create dataset of 100 weighings of a 10g;
* prototype weight at the National Institute of;
* Standards and Technology;
* x is independent variable to use for boxplot;
data nist;
   infile "c:/datasets/nist.txt" firstobs=2;
   input number weight;
   x = 1;

* Print dataset;
proc print;

* Print descriptive statistics;
proc means;
   var weight;

* Compute univariate statistics, low res plots;
* histogram and normal plot;
proc univariate plots normal;
   var weight;
   histogram weight / normal;
   probplot weight / normal;

* Create boxplot, showing outliers;
proc boxplot;
   plot weight * x / boxstyle=schematic boxwidth=25;

run;
quit;