Variable names are alphanumeric but must start with a letter. The length of a variable name is limited to thirty-two characters for non-SAS data set variables Model variables are declared by VAR, ...

Mathematical programming discriminant analysis models must be normalised to prevent the generation of discriminant functions in which the variable coefficients and the constant term are zero. This ...

Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them as ...

Health programs that use social and related data obtained through surveys or other methods need to distinguish among so-called independent variables. Three groups of independent variables are (a) ...

The following SASMACRO submits a DATA step that uses the GETEXEC function to retrieve the value of the REXX variable DATALINE. It then prints the value of DATALINE in the SAS log. Note that the REXX ...

The “Cheyenne” supercomputer, an Intel-powered SGI system installed in 2017 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, is at the heart of a major article on climate change ...

In snow-dominated river basins of the southwestern US, water managers are tasked with producing forecasts of warm-season water supply. They have typically used linear models, such as multiple linear ...