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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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Using the PLOT Procedure
Generating Data with Program Statements
When you generate data to be plotted, a good rule is to generate fewer observations than
the number of positions on the horizontal axis. PROC PLOT then uses the increment of
the horizontal variable as the interval between tick marks.
Because PROC PLOT prints one character for each observation, using SAS program
statements to generate the data set for PROC PLOT can enhance the effectiveness of
continuous plots. For example, suppose that you want to generate data in order to plot
the following equation, for x ranging from 0 to 100:
y
= 2.54 + 3.83
x
You can submit these statements:
options ...
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