that you analyze, you always need to read ina data set for your statistical analysis.
Arguably, you will spend more time setting up and shaping a data set for an analysis than
you will spend doing the statistical descriptions and analysis.Thischapter addresses this
effort. The other fine points of enhancing variable names with labelsor enhancing values
of variables using formatsis postponed until Chapter 3 and Chapter 8. Before you begin
exploring ways to read data into SAS, let’s take a short digression into the topic of
functions in SAS and how functions can be used to add variables to a data set. ...
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