DHSW- What You Can Access (2)

After “Program 1” was working, a request was made to know standard deviations of estimates. Using much of the code from Program 1, “Program 2: Deheaping with the Option of STD in Some Estimates”. As with Program 1, the initial version of Program 2 used “%include” statements to bring in code while SAS was executing. However, given the programs were using SAS macro language, Program 2 and subsequent programs use SAS macros to bring code in during program execution. So, rather than having several files with “callable” code, Program 2 and after have a “core” program and a file of “macros”. Macros are read in as part of “setting up to run” and SAS accesses them from storage in SAS’s Work library. Documentation gives one information about the macros and their function.

To facilitate understanding how deheaping works, you can access the current version of a working paper by clicking the button that follows.