Glossary
- aggregate storage location
a location on an operating system that can contain a group of distinct files. Different host operating systems call an aggregate grouping of files different names, such as a directory, a maclib, or a partitioned data set. The standard form for referencing an aggregate storage location from within SAS is fileref (name), where fileref is the entire aggregate and (name) is a specific file or member of that aggregate. See also fileref (file reference).
- analysis variable
a numeric variable that is used to calculate statistics or to display values. Usually an analysis variable contains quantitative or continuous values, but this is not required.
- argument
(1) the data values within parentheses on which a SAS function or ...
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