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Fitting Curves and Surfaces Using SAS Software
Version 1.1 (February 2007)
Annex
This annex describes the data sets used in the examples and the DATA step code required to read the data.
In some cases, the raw data is also stored separately in a file of type .dat. (All files are assumed to be held in
the directory C:\temp\sas\graph.)
Data set name: melanoma
Description: The data is taken from the Connecticut Tumour Registry, and represents age-adjusted numbers
of melanoma incidences per 100,000 people for 37 years from 1936 to 1972. (Houghton, Flannery and Viola,
1980).
Program name: melanoma.sas
libname sasgraph ‘c:\temp\sas\graph’;
data sasgraph.melanoma;
input Year Incidences @@;
format year d4.0;
format incidences d4.1;
cards;
1936 0.9 1937 0.8 1938 0.8 1939 1.3
1940 1.4 1941 1.2 1942 1.7 1943 1.8
1944 1.6 1945 1.5 1946 1.5 1947 2.0
1948 2.5 1949 2.7 1950 2.9 1951 2.5
1952 3.1 1953 2.4 1954 2.2 1955 2.9
1956 2.5 1957 2.6 1958 3.2 1959 3.8
1960 4.2 1961 3.9 1962 3.7 1963 3.3
1964 3.7 1965 3.9 1966 4.1 1967 3.8
1968 4.7 1969 4.4 1970 4.8 1971 4.8
1972 4.8
run;
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