SAS 면접 질문과 답변

Question: What is the purpose of the FORMAT procedure in SAS?

Answer: The FORMAT procedure in SAS is used to create custom formats for variables, defining the appearance of data values in output reports.

Example:

PROC FORMAT; VALUE gender_fmt 1='Male' 2='Female'; RUN; 
DATA formatted_dataset; SET original_dataset; FORMAT gender gender_fmt.; RUN;