If the conversion is not possible, SAS prints a note to the log, assigns the numeric variable a value of missing, and sets the automatic variable _ERROR_ to 1. For a listing of the rules by which SAS ...

Decrementing numeric variables. Decrementing numbers can be done in the same way. You just need to use minus signs in place of the plus signs shown above.

The default length of numeric variables in SAS data sets is 8 bytes. (You can control the length of SAS numeric variables with the LENGTH statement in the DATA step.) In the SAS System under Windows, ...

Numeric variables will always result in number-based responses, which are represented in scatter or line charts with continuous values. Word variables are sometimes represented by numbers, ...

Numerical variables contain all sorts of numeric values including integers, decimal values and floating numbers. Date variables hold information about month, year and day in a predefined order.

In this exercise we’ll look at plots of a single numeric variable. In that case we’re interested in the distribution of the variable, which can usually be described in terms of: Start by running the ...