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Statistical Programming in SAS
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Statistical Programming in SAS

by John Bailer
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
460 pages
14h 45m
English
SAS Institute
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326 Statistical Programming in SAS
In this chapter, you are presented with a data structure (the array) that is available in
DATA steps. The array can store a collection of similar type elements. Manipulations
involving these data structures are provided. A series of examples illustrate the power and
flexibility of arrays. By default, SAS processes data one record at a time, forgetting the
values of variables from previous records. (Sorry for anthropomorphizing SAS. I know it
doesn’t really forget values, but it is a useful image, nonetheless.) However, it is often
important to keep the values for processing future records. The RETAIN stat ...
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ISBN: 9781607645047