An example of independent numeric data values are the ages (54, 28, 31, 48, 22, 39) in the demo program. I recommend normalizing independent numeric data by computing the means and standard deviation ...

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This example uses an INVALUE statement to create a numeric informat that converts numeric and character raw data to numeric data. invalue eval 'O'=4 'S'=3 'E'=2 'C'=1 'N'=0; run; data proclib.points; ...