We continued our Opioid Analysis this week. I have found this dataset particularly interesting for two main reasons. First, I live in North Carolina, and so this dataset reflects information from my current location. Second, my fiancé is a first responder, and he sees these drug problems first hand.
I am starting to feel more and more comfortable with SAS, particularly with its basic functions. This week, we will tackle a whole new task with MACROS. I have gone through and done the homework. I just have to go back through and correct my errors. I will say that this homework assignment was definitely more challenging than the preceding ones. I recall Mike telling us that many people can work in SAS, but many do not know how to do MACROS. I think that this makes MACROS an exciting challenge.
I look forward to becoming more comfortable and familiar with how MACROS work. I can definitely see that they make the work easier and more automated. In this assignment, we used them to generate information on our character and numeric variables.
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