If you want to compare variables in the base data set with variables with different names in the comparison data set, specify the names of the variables in the base data set in the VAR statement and ...

Restriction: If you omit COMPARE=, you must use the WITH and VAR statements. Restriction: PROC COMPARE reports errors differently if one or both of the compared data sets are not RADIX addressable.

Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...