Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software

Chapter 2

Getting Started with the SAS/IML Matrix Programming Language

Contents

2.1   Overview of the SAS/IML Language

2.2   Creating Matrices

2.2.1   Printing a Matrix

2.2.2   The Dimensions of a Matrix

2.2.3   The Type of a Matrix

2.2.4   The Length of a Character Matrix

2.3   Using Functions to Create Matrices

2.3.1   Constant Matrices

2.3.2   Vectors of Sequential Values

2.3.3   Pseudorandom Matrices

2.4   Transposing a Matrix

2.5   Changing the Shape of Matrices

2.6   Extracting Data from Matrices

2.6.1   Extracting Rows and Columns

2.6.2   Matrix Diagonals

2.6.3   Printing a Submatrix or Expression

2.7   Comparision Operators

2.8   Control Statements

2.8.1   The IF-THEN/ELSE Statement

2.8.2   The Iterative DO Statement

2.9   Concatenation ...