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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition
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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

by SAS Institute
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
582 pages
25h 3m
English
SAS Institute
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Group Processing Using the BY Statement

Like the CLASS statement, the BY statement specifies variables to use for categorizing observations.
Syntax, BY statement:
BY variable(s);
variable(s) specifies category variables for group processing.
But BY and CLASS differ in two key ways:
  • Unlike CLASS processing, BY-group processing requires that your data already be sorted or indexed in the order of the BY variables. Unless data set observations are already sorted, you must run the SORT procedure before using PROC MEANS with any BY group.
    CAUTION:
    If you do not specify an output data set by using the OUT= option, PROC SORT overwrites the initial data set with newly sorted observations.
  • The layout of BY-group results differs ...
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