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Rick WicklinOctober 4, 2010 0

Reading SAS data sets

Often, the first step of a SAS/IML program is to use the USE, READ, and CLOSE statements to read data from a SAS data set into a vector or matrix. There are several ways to read data: Read variables into vectors of the same name. Read one or more variables

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Rick WicklinOctober 1, 2010 0

Using data to define hurricane season

In a previous blog post about hurricanes, I created a histogram of the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin during the years 1988–2003. That histogram shows that the peak of hurricane activity occurs in the second week of September, but also that a majority of tropical storms occur

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Rick WicklinSeptember 29, 2010 0

Timing Performance: Looping versus LOC-ing

The SAS/IML language is a vector language, so statements that operate on a few long vectors run much faster than equivalent statements that involve many scalar quantities. For example, in a previous post, I asserted that the LOC function is much faster than writing a loop, for finding observations that

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