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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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Reading a Single Data Set to Create Another

The data set Sasuser.Admit contains health information about patients in a clinic, their activity level, height, and weight. Suppose you want to create a subset of the data. Specifically, you want to create a small data set containing data about all the men in the group who are older than 50.
To create the data set, you must first reference the library in which Sasuser.Admit is stored. Then you must specify the name of the library in which you want to store the Males data set. Finally, you write a DATA step to read your data and create a new data set.
Syntax, DATA step for reading a single data set:
DATA SAS-data-set;
SET SAS-data-set;
<...more SAS statements...>
RUN;
  • SAS-data-set ...
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