SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Using PROC FCMP

Overview

The FCMP procedure uses the SAS language compiler to create user-defined functions. The compiler subsystem generates machine language code for the computer on which SAS is running.

You can use the functions and subroutines that you create in PROC FCMP with the DATA step, the WHERE statement, the Output Delivery System (ODS), and with the following procedures:

PROC CALIS	PROC OPTLSO
PROC GA	PROC QUANTREG
PROC GENMOD	PROC REPORT COMPUTE blocks
PROC GLIMMIX	SAS Risk Dimensions procedures
PROC MCMC	PROC SEVERITY
PROC MODEL	PROC SIMILARITY
PROC NLIN	PROC SQL (functions with array arguments are not supported)
PROC NLMIXED	PROC SURVEYPHREG
PROC NLP	PROC VARMAX

Writing a PROC FCMP Step

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