Global Statements Dictionary
an
analysis variable
Proc steps. n.
one of the primary set of input variables. Analysis variables are listed in the VAR statement of a proc step and are often used to calculate statistics.
anchor
(angk' u^r) HTML. n.
a marked point or section of a web page that can be used as the target of a link.
AND
Operator. Ref: PSPPR:Expressions:Operators. PSPL:Constants and Expressions:Operators. Also see BETWEEN, SAME AND.
angle
(ang' gul) n.
1. the relative difference in direction between two intersecting lines.
2. a measure of the direction of a line when compared to a horizontal axis or other reference line.
ANGLE
SAS/GRAPH. Annotate variable.
angle bracket
(ang' gul brak' it) n.
either of the characters
< (less than) or
> (greater than),
used together to enclose terms, such as
the denominator expression of a statistic in the
TABLE statement of the TABULATE procedure or tags in XML and HTML.
annotate
adj.
using SAS/GRAPH drawing actions to define a graphic, especially as a way to enhance a graphic created in a SAS/GRAPH procedure.
annotate dataset
n.
a SAS dataset containing a sequence of SAS/GRAPH drawing actions that define a graphic for use in SAS/GRAPH.
annotate function
n.
in an annotate dataset, one of the action objects used in SAS/GRAPH drawing, indicated as the value of the FUNCTION annotate variable.
annotate variable
n.
in an annotate dataset, a variable that indicates one of the properties of an annotate function.
ANOM
SAS/QC. Procedure. Analysis of means charts.
anova
(u nO' vu, a-) Statistics. n.
analysis of variance: a statistical technique used in cause-and-effect models to identify significant causes among a set of possible causes. Also, ANOVA.
ANOVA
SAS/STAT. Procedure. Analysis of variance.
ANYALNUM
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYALPHA
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYCNTRL
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYDIGIT
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYDTDTE
Informat. Variously formatted time data interpreted as SAS date.
ANYDTDTM
Informat. Variously formatted time data interpreted as SAS datetime.
ANYDTTME
Informat. Variously formatted time data interpreted as SAS time.
ANYFIRST
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYGRAPH
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYLOWER
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYNAME
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYPRINT
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYPUNCT
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYSPACE
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYUPPER
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
ANYXDIGIT
Function. Text search. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
