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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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390 Statistical Programming in SAS
SAS data sets are rectangular objects that can be manipulated using procedures.
Simulations with data sets and procedures using macros were described in a previous
chapter. Unfortunately, there is overhead when you repeatedly invoke DATA steps and
procedures. And, looping over DATA steps and procedures can be very slow. So, what
can you do? If you can think in terms of processing rows and columns from rectangular
arrays of data, then you have an option. In this chapter, PROC IML is introduced and
illustrated. The “IML” in SAS/IML stands for interactive matrix language. SAS/IML is a
tool for manipulating matrices. ...
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ISBN: 9781607645047