Small multiples are one of the great ideas of graphics visionary Edward Tufte (e.g., in Envisioning Information). Briefly, the idea is that if many variations on a theme are presented, differences quickly become apparent. Today we offer general guida…
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Example 9.16: Small multiples
Small multiples are one of the great ideas of graphics visionary Edward Tufte (e.g., in Envisioning Information). Briefly, the idea is that if many variations on a theme are presented, differences quickly become apparent. Today we offer general guida…
How to create Global or Local macro variables: (%Global / %Local)
Global Macro Variables:The global macro variable gets created during the initialization of a SAS session and its get deleted at the end of the session.
Global macro variable cane be created with
“call symputX” is the symput upgrade
SymputX is the upgrade from Call Symput. Syntax: call symputx(“macro_var_name”, character_value (or numeric to be converted to char), symbol table def); Where symput will produce a note about converting character values to numeric, symputx won’t produce such a note. Additionally it will strip leading and trailing spaces form the character value. Lastly, you can define […]
Example 8.2: Digits of Pi, redux
In example 8.1, we considered some simple tests for the randomness of the digits of Pi. Here we develop a different test and implement it. If each digit appears in each place with equal and independent probability, then the places between recurrences…