Statistical software SAS

Basic SAS programming 

a online material to learn basic data handling and manipulation in SAS 

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Frequently asked questions:

How to use SAS import in SAS 9.4. (Error message: Connection failed).

Logistic regression:

In PROC LOGISTIC why aren't the coefficients consistent with the odds ratios? 

Typical errors in SAS programming

Missing semicolons

The most typical error in SAS programming is to miss out on a semicolon in the end of the line. An error is given, but for SAS it is difficult to identify the problem as a missing semicolon. Below the error is indicated as the run; line. The error is in the line above. Run could then not be identified.

308 data indata1a;

309 set indata1;

310 if concent>25

311 run;

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ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, *, **, +, -, /, <, <=, <>, =, >, ><, >=, AND, EQ, GE, GT, IN, LE,

LT, MAX, MIN, NE, NG, NL, NOTIN, OR, ^=, |, ||, ~=.

Creating new data sets

Another typical error when making subsets or creating new variables in a data set is that either one of the names is misspelled or a condition is not fullfilled. In the log-window you see that the newly created data set indata1a has 0 observations. Observe that this is only given as a note not as error or warning.

A condition is not fullfilled: