The question will ask you to provide a missing statement. Given the following SAS program: proc logistic data = MYDIR.DEFAULT_DATA des; model Purchase = Money Acct_type Debt Employment; <insert statem

Question

Options

• AScore data=MYDIR.NEW_DATA out=scores;
• BScore data data=MYDIR.NEW_DATA output=scores;
• CScore data=MYDIR.NEU_DATA output=scores;
• DScore data=MYDIR._NEW_DATA out=scores;

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  4% (1)
• D
  92% (23)

Explanation

Important note: There appears to be an error in this question's stated answer key. Option A is actually the correct answer, not D.

Option A (Score data=MYDIR.NEW_DATA out=scores;) is syntactically correct because the PROC LOGISTIC SCORE statement uses OUT= (not OUTPUT=) for the output dataset, and correctly references NEW_DATA as the dataset to score.

The distractors fail for the following reasons:

• B is wrong on two counts: it has a duplicated data data= keyword, which is invalid syntax, and uses the incorrect output= option.
• C is wrong because it contains a typo - NEU_DATA instead of NEW_DATA - and also uses the incorrect output= option name.
• D is wrong because it references _NEW_DATA (with a leading underscore), which is a different dataset name than the NEW_DATA the question asks about, even though out= is syntactically correct.

Memory tip: For PROC LOGISTIC SCORE, remember "data in, out goes out" - DATA= names the dataset to score, and OUT= (short, three letters) names the output. If you see OUTPUT=, it's always a trap - that keyword belongs elsewhere in SAS, not here.

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