Quick Tips

  1. A SAS program contains one or more steps, and each step is a sequence of statements.
  2. Every SAS statement ends with a semicolon.
  3. Your SAS program is constructed of DATA and PROC steps.
  4. In SAS, there are two data types or variable categories—numeric (quantitative), or character (qualitative).
  5. Missing data can be read in SAS. A missing value is noted with a period (.) for numeric data and with a blank space for character data.

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