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Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition
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Base SAS 9.4 Procedures Guide, Third Edition

by SAS Institute
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
2218 pages
209h 16m
English
SAS Institute
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Syntax
BY <DESCENDING> variable-1
<<DESCENDING> variable-2 …>
<NOTSORTED>;
Required Argument
variable
specifies the variable that the procedure uses to form BY groups. You can specify
more than one variable. If you do not use the NOTSORTED option in the BY
statement, then the observations in the data set must be sorted by all the variables
that you specify. Variables in a BY statement are called BY variables.
Optional Arguments
DESCENDING
specifies that the observations are sorted in descending order by the variable that
immediately follows the word DESCENDING in the BY statement.
NOTSORTED
specifies that observations are not necessarily sorted in alphabetic ...
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