Becoming A Master Manipulator

Using Macro Functions To Manipulate SAS Enterprise Guide Date Prompts Becoming A Master Manipulator Edward Lan Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Abstract In surveillance and epidemiologic functions of public health departments SAS codes are created to produce recurring reports Typically these reports will assess the status of selected reportable diseases across time periods to monitor trends such as case counts for current month current year past years yearly averages Instead of having a separate SAS Enterprise Guide EG date prompt for each date value macro functions can manipulate dates to reduce the number of prompts necessary This paper explores using macro functions and SAS EG 71 date prompts to automate manipulation of date values in lieu of multiple date prompts for reports

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