SAS Data Sets
Useful Vocabulary
To run analysis on data
that you have collected, the data must be in a format that SAS can
read. Therefore, your data must be in the form of a SAS data set.
A SAS data set is a specially structured file that contains data values.
SAS data sets are processed by SAS procedures. SAS has a robust ability
to work with and read almost any data. Once the observations or files
are in SAS, the data is stored and can be opened whenever needed to
process analyses and reports. A few vocabulary words that are associated
with a data set include:
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variables
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observations
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descriptor portion
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data portion
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data types
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numeric variables
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character variables
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missing data
Variables and ...
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