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SAS Programming Process First, you establish the ________ for your program. Then you go through the process of writing and submitting the program, checking your results, and making any necessary changes. |
business need
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Are raw data files created only by SAS?
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No
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Using SAS, you can read many kinds of data. T or F? |
True
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What does a SAS program file contain?
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SAS programming code
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Are SAS data sets created only by SAS?
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Yes
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Can a SAS program be saved and reused?
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Yes
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step boundaries determine ______ Examples (4) |
when SAS statements take effect and indicate the end of the current step or the beginning of a new step. EX: RUN, QUIT, DATA, and PROC statements |
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Which of the following is a SAS syntax requirement? a. Begin each statement in column one. b. Put only one statement on each line. c. Separate each step with a line space. d. End each statement with a semicolon. e. Put a RUN statement after every DATA or PROC step. |
d. End each statement with a semicolon. |
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Although it is recommended to end steps with a RUN statement, it is optional. T or F |
True
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_____ steps are typically used to process SAS data sets (that is, generate reports, graphs, and statistics).
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PROC
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A block comment begins with ______ followed by your comment text, and ends _________
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/* COMMENT */
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A block comment can be any length, and can contain semicolons. T or F |
T
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SAS allows either single or double quotation marks. If you begin with a single quotation mark, you can end with a double quotation mark. T or F |
False
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Where do global statements appear?
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anywhere in a SAS program
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SAS permits your programs to be ____ format
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free
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A ______ is text in your program that SAS ignores during processing, but writes to the SAS log.
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comment
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In which portion of a SAS data set are the following found? 1. name of the data set 2. type of the variable Salary 3. creation date of the data set |
descriptor portion
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the default length of numeric variables is ___ bytes
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8
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Which INAE statement has the correct syntax? a. libname reports 'filepath/workshop'; b. libname orion filepath/workshop; c. libname 3456a 'filepath/workshop'; |
a
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A missing value is displayed as a _______ for numeric variables and as a ______ for character variables
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period blank |
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Numeric values are stored in floating point notation in bytes of storage, allowing a maximum of _____ digits
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16-17 digits.
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You use the _____option in the LIBNAME statement to cancel, or disassociate, a libref that you previously assigned.
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CLEAR
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the observations are the ____ in a data set, and variables are the _______in a data set.
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rows Columns |
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Which of the following librefs is valid? a. 2010Car b. car/2010 c. Car_2012 d. 1_or_a |
c. Car_2012
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When you specify a one-level data set name, SAS assumes the library is _____ and the data set is _____
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work temporary |
