Advanced ODS
Graphics Examples
Warren F. Kuhfeld
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2. Axes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 3. Axis Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 4. Annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 5. Bars, Lines, Curves, and Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Chapter 6. Plots of Labeled Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Chapter 7. Advanced Customization of Graphs That Analytical Procedures Produce . . . . . 197
Index 239
iv
Preface
If you are an experienced SAS user, you probably already know about ODS Graphics (also called ODS
Statistical Graphics) and how to do the following:
enable ODS Graphics so that analytical procedures produce graphical output together with tabular
output
modify graph templates to modify the output that analytical procedures produce
work with SAS styles
use SG procedures such as PROC SGPLOT to produce custom plots
If these topics are not already familiar to you, then you should start by looking at the chapters and book
listed in the section “About the Author” on page v. If you are familiar with these topics and want to learn
more, then you have found the right book. This book goes beyond the basics and works through a series
of advanced examples. Each example illustrates a small fraction of the incredible power of ODS Graphics.
In particular, there are many examples of PROC SGPLOT and the SG annotation facility. The last chapter
shows you how to customize every aspect of the graphs that analytical procedures produce.
Sample Code
The beginning of every example has a link that you can double click to see the SAS code for that example.
The first example has the following link:
These links work in Adobe Acrobat Reader and Internet Explorer but not in Google Chrome or Mozilla
Firefox.
About the Author
This book was written by Warren F. Kuhfeld, Distinguished Research Statistician Developer in SAS/STAT
Research and Development. Warren received his PhD in psychometrics from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in 1985 and joined SAS in 1987. He has used SAS since 1979 and has developed SAS
procedures since 1984.
In addition to writing the SAS Press book Statistical Graphics in SAS: An Introduction to the Graph
Template Language and the Statistical Graphics Procedures, Warren also wrote the following SAS/STAT
documentation chapters: Chapter 20, “Using the Output Delivery System” (SAS/STAT User’s Guide),
Chapter 21, “Statistical Graphics Using ODS” (SAS/STAT User’s Guide), Chapter 22, “ODS Graphics
Template Modification” (SAS/STAT User’s Guide), Chapter 23, “Customizing the Kaplan-Meier Survival
Plot” (SAS/STAT User’s Guide).
Warren maintains 11 SAS/STAT procedures. He developed 20 SAS macros for experimental designs for linear
and choice models. His 1,309-page book about discrete choice and other marketing research methods, Market-
ing Research Methods in SAS, is free on the web:
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/
tnote/tnote_marketresearch.html
. Warren has also developed the world’s largest collection of
orthogonal arrays: http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts723.html.
Double Click for Example Code
