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Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Logic: Contents

Chapter 2
Program
Basketball

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   POINTS.SAS
   Create SAS dataset of basketball scoring statistics.
   Rick Aster    January 2000

   Input text file: BASKET
   Output SAS dataset: CENTER.POINTS
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OPTIONS LINESIZE=75 NOCENTER PAGENO=1;
TITLE1 'Basketball Scorers';

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   Create SAS dataset from input data.
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DATA CENTER.POINTS (DROP=P2);
   INFILE BASKET TRUNCOVER;
   INPUT
       TEAM $18.
       PLAYER $20.
       FG 4.
       P3 4.
       FT 4.
       ;

   *
      Convert missing values to zeroes.
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   IF FG = . THEN FG = 0;
   IF P3 = . THEN P3 = 0;
   IF FT = . THEN FT = 0;

   *
      Calculate points and field goals.
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   P2 = FG - P3;
   PTS = 2*P2 + 3*P3 + FT;
   FG = P2 + P3;

    *
      Keep only players that have points.
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   IF PTS > 0;
RUN;

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   Print first five observations.
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PROC PRINT DATA=CENTER.POINTS (OBS=5);
RUN;