I have a set of, say 36 observations and wish to calculate the distance matrix for these observations. Now I can do so with the use of a double do-loop, but this seems tedious (even though, for my purposes at this stage, computation time is negligible still). I read that the "distance" operator can be used in this way:
delta = distance(matrix, "L2");
for, say, the Euclidian distance. It seems like a nifty function, unfortunately on my SAS9.3 system, the log gives me an error saying "Invocation of unresolved module DISTANCE."
Anybody have an idea why this is?
The DISTANCE function was introduced in SAS/IML 12.1, which was released as part of SAS 9.3M2 (the second maintenance releaase): See Support.sas.com
Of course, you can still write your own distance function by using the SAS/IML language, as shown in the following article:
How to compute the distance between observations in SAS - The DO Loop
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