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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 5th Edition
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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 5th Edition

by SAS Institute
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
17h 24m
English
SAS Institute
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Chapter 8: BY-Group Processing

  1. Correct answer: d
    When you use the BY statement with the SET statement, the DATA step creates the temporary variables FIRST. and LAST. They are not stored in the data set.
  2. Correct answer: d
    Before you can perform BY-group processing, your data must follow a pattern. If your data is not ordered or grouped in some pattern, BY-group processing results in an error.
  3. Correct answer: a
    In the DATA step, during BY-group processing only, the temporary variables FIRST.variable and LAST.variable are available for DATA step programming, but they do not appear in the output data set.
  4. Correct answer: c
    The SORT procedure sorts the data Cert.Credit by the variable Type in ascending order. You do not have to ...
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