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The %DISTANCE macro computes various measures of distance, dissimilarity, or similarity between the observations (rows) of a SAS data set. These proximity measures are stored as a lower triangular matrix or a square matrix in an output data set that can then be used as input to the CLUSTER, MDS or MODECLUS procedures. The input data sets may contain numeric or character variables or both, depending on which proximity measure is used. The macro is documented in the macro comments and can be found in the SAS/STAT sample library.
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