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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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Chapter 2: Reading, Combining, and Managing Data for Later Analysis 39
Display 2.13 includes the contents of the spreadsheet as it appears in a SAS library. Each
worksheet becomes a separate data set in SAS. Only Sheet1$ is populated with data; the
other two spreadsheets are empty. It is interesting that an Excel column label that is also a
valid SAS variable name is assigned the SAS variable name as its label. An Excel column
that does not map to a valid SAS variable name (e.g., %WC) is modified to have a valid
SAS name by substituting an underscore for the percentage sign (e.g., _WC). The Excel
column headings are assigned as labels for ...
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ISBN: 9781607645047