Clinical SAS Programming Efficiently with Large SAS Datasets

This 14 page paper titled "Working Efficiently with Large SAS® Datasets" examines best practices with SAS programming to improve the efficiency of programs and reduce the size of datasets.

The methods that this paper examine are:

• Length Statements
• Dataset Compression Using Compress Option
• Size Reduction by Selection of Variables
• Saving Storage Space or Memory
• Subsetting Observations