Date:         Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:02:38 -0500
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From:         cooch17@NOSPAMVERIZON.NET
Organization: Cornell University
Subject:      Re: ODS vs NOPRINT problems
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>ODS SELECT NONE;
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Finally figured it out - instead of the above, I need to use

ODS SELECT CONTRASTS;

which (in effect) turns everything else off except the CONTRASTS.

OK, seems to make sense. The fact that I had to dig through 40 pages
of documentation, make a fe guesses, and then trial and error, does
not. ODS (and SAS in general) seem overly focussed on 'reports' of
various formats.

For many of us, all we want is the statistics. What would be far
simpler than ODS is a system where every option had its own sub-option
for outputting things.

For example,

PROC GLM;
  CLASS SEX;
    MODEL X=SEX;
CONTRAST 'title' SEX 1 -1 / outstat=my contrasts;


i.e., making an output or outstat option for every part of every
procedure. Seems to me this would be infinitely simpler than ODS.