A SAS programmer asked for a list of SAS/IML functions that operate on the columns of an n x p matrix and return a 1 x p row vector of results. The functions that behave this way tend to compute univariate descriptive statistics such as the mean, median, standard deviation, and quantiles.
The following SAS/IML functions compute a statistic for each column of a matrix:
- COUNTMISS function: counts the number of missing values (use the "col" option)
- COUNTN function : counts the number of nonmissing values (use the "col" option)
- COUNTUNIQUE function: counts the number of unique values (use the "col" option)
- CV function: computes the sample coefficient of variation
- KURTOSIS function: computes the sample kurtosis
- MAD function: computes the univariate median absolute deviation
- MEAN function: computes sample means
- QNTL call: computes sample quantiles (returns multiple rows)
- QUARTILE function: computes the five-number summary (returns five rows: min, Q1, Q2, Q3, and max))
- SKEWNESS function: computes the sample skewness
- STD function: computes the sample standard deviation
- VAR function: computes the sample variance
You can also use subscript reduction operators to compute the following descriptive statistics for each column in a matrix X:
- X[+, ] returns the column sums (similar to the SUM function)
- X[#, ] returns the column products (similar to the PROD function)
- X[<>, ] returns the column maxima (similar to the MAX function)
- X[><, ] returns the column minima (similar to the MIN function)
- X[<:>, ] returns the index of the column maxima
- X[>:<, ] returns the index of the column minima
- X[##, ] returns the column sum of squares (similar to the SSQ function)
Lastly, elementwise operators (+, -, #, /, ##) in SAS/IML can operate on columns.
6 Comments
Rick,
You missed another way. SUMMARY statement .
OK, but that isn't a function that acts on a matrix. It is a statement that acts on a data set.
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Hi Rick
I am using SAS/IML. I have imported my data from excel into SAS using PROC IMPORT.
I want then to enable SAS interactive matrix language. I would like to save my data in a matrix. The matrix will depend in the data inserted in the excel file. Sometimes I have data over 5 columns and sometimes over 6 columns. Therefore I need to read how many columns I have in the excel file. Is this possible?
Thanks
It sounds like you want to read all the columns into a matrix. You can use the _NUM_ keyword to read all numeric variables into a matrix. (There is also a _CHAR_ keyword, which reads all character variables.) See "Read ALL variables INTO a matrix."
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