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| What is the one statement to set the criteria of data that
can be coded in any step? | | 2 |
| How would you delete observations with duplicate keys? | | 5 |
| Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct
instead of IF statements? | Accenture | 4 |
| How to select the observations randomly from a SAS dataset | | 4 |
| What other SAS features do you use for error trapping and
data validation? | | 2 |
| what are the validation tools in sas? | | 1 |
| Name and describe three SAS functions that you have used, if
any? | Accenture | 3 |
| What statement do you code to tell SAS that it is to write
to an external file? | | 5 |
| is there any differnce between proc means and proc summary? | | 2 |
| Name statements that are recognized at compile time only? | Accenture | 3 |
| How do you generate random samples? | | 4 |
| what is the diff. b/w proc means and proc summary? | CitiGroup | 5 |
| In the flow of DATA step processing, what is the first
action in a typical DATA Step? | | 7 |
| There is a field containing a date. It needs to be
displayed in the format
"ddmonyy" if it's before 1975,
"dd mon ccyy" if it's after 1985, and
as 'Disco Years' if it's between 1975 and 1985.
How would you accomplish this in data step code? Using
only PROC FORMAT
| D&B | 1 |
| If you?re not wanting any SAS output from a data step, how
would you code the data statement to prevent SAS from
producing a set? | | 1 |
| How do you add a number to a macro variable? | | 1 |
| How could you generate test data with no input data?
| | 9 |
| hi guys ...i have one query...
data abc;
input s w k g o t a m;
cards;
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
;
run;
i want the output to be the sorted order(only
variables).observations should not be changed.. | | 5 |
| how do u validate sas program | Accenture | 1 |
| What SAS statements would you code to read an external raw
data file to a DATA step? | Accenture | 5 |
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