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Planning a CA MICS Report Job


Once you have gone through the steps described in this
chapter, you will be ready to create your report. These
planning steps are generic and apply to reports built with
Q&R Workstation or MICF or programmed in SAS:

This section contains the following topics:

4.1 Formulate the Question to be Answered

4.2 Determine Data Needed to Answer the Question

4.3 Determine Files to be Used

4.4 Determine Cycles to be Used

4.5 Plan Any Needed Computations

4.6 Plan Any Needed SAS Data Set Creation

4.7 Plan Form and Disposition of Output