May 2021
Beginner
306 pages
6h 20m
English
Now that you have learned how to perform operations on built-in SASHELP data sets, it’s time to see how to import your own data into a SAS library.
SAS data sets contain two parts: the first part is called the data descriptor, also known as metadata. Metadata is a fancy word for data about your data. In the case of a SAS data set, this portion of the data set contains such information as the number of rows and columns in the table, the column names, the data type for each column (SAS has only two data types—character and numeric), and other information about when the data set was created.
The second part of a SAS data set contains the actual data values. If you tried to examine a SAS data set using another ...