Global Statements Dictionary
va
valid
(val' id) adj.
1. having a value that is acceptable for a variable, field, data type, object class, name, etc.
2. functioning as intended.
validate
(val' ii dAt) v.t.
1. to test (a value) to determine whether it is acceptable for the context in which it is used.
2. to test (a software unit) to determine whether it functions as intended.
validity
(vu lid' i ti) n.
the state or condition of being valid.
VALIDFMTNAME
System option. Backward-compatible format names.
VALIDVARNAME
System option. Ref: PSPPR:System Options. PSPL:Execution:The Execution Process. SLRD:SAS System Options.
value
(val' U) n.
1. any of the various states that are possible for a variable, option, etc., or within a particular data type.
2. the data contained in a variable, constant, etc.
3. the setting that an option has at a particular time.
4. the result of the evaluation of an expression, the execution of a function, etc.
value format
n.
a format that converts specific values or ranges of values to specific text values. Value formats are created in the VALUE statement of the FORMAT procedure.
value informat
n.
an informat that converts specific text values or ranges of text values to specific data values. Value informats are created in the INVALUE statement of the FORMAT procedure.
VAR
Proc step statement. Analysis variables. PSPPR:Proc Step Statements. PSPL:Proc Steps:Proc Step Syntax.
Statistic. Variance. PSPPR:Descriptive Statistics. PSPL:Proc Steps:Summary Statistics.
Function. Variance. PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Functions and CALL Routines:Mathematical Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
Display Manager window. Variables.
VARCLUS
SAS/STAT. Procedure. Clustering, maximum variance.
VARCOMP
SAS/STAT. Procedure. General linear models with random effects.
VARDEF
PROC statement option. Variance divisor. PSPPR:Statistics. PSPL:Proc Steps:Statistics.
VARFMT
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
variable
(va^r' i u bul) n.
1. Mathematics. a named, unspecified value in an equation or other expression.
2. Statistics. one of the measured or estimated qualities of a statistical model.
3. a named object in a computer program that uses a location in memory to hold a value of a particular data type, able to take on different values in the course of running the program.
4. one of the data elements of a SAS dataset, with a distinct value in each observation of the SAS dataset, identified by a name and having other attributes that are stored in the SAS dataset.
variance
(va^r' E uns) n.
1. a difference from the usual or expected.
2. Statistics. a measure of the dispersion of a probability distribution, the mean of the square of the difference from the mean.
3. Quality. a. the tendency of the results of a process to vary. b. the failure of a product to meet a particular specification. c. the difference between the actual and acceptable values of a measure. d. the relative frequency of failure in a process.
VARINFMT
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARIOGRAM
SAS/STAT. Procedure. Spatial continuity.
VARLABEL
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARLEN
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARMAX
SAS/ETS. Procedure. Vector autoregressive model for time series.
VARNUM
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARNAME
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARRAY
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARRAYX
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VARTRANSCODE
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions.
VARTYPE
Function. Ref: PSPPR:Functions. PSPL:Low-Level I/O Programming:SAS Dataset I/O Functions. SLRD:Functions and CALL Routines.
VAX
n.
a family of small multiuser computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corp., widely used for scientific applications in the 1980s.
