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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis
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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

by Harish Gulati
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
346 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Dictionary tables

Some SAS software packages require minimal coding experience to get your work done. However, once you want to do anything advanced, it gets restrictive to use just the predefined options available in the package. At that moment, most users tend to write code. Chances are that if you want to go beyond what SAS already offers as predefined procedures and functionalities, you want to write advanced programs/macros. While we will delve into macros later on in this book, there is an aspect of SAS that is being leveraged less by some users. These are the dictionaries. But what are they and how can they be useful?

Some reasons for using dictionary tables are as follows:

  • They hold all the information about SAS libraries, datasets, ...
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