Syntax Supported by the IML Procedure and the iml Action

COUNTN (x <, method> ) ;

This function is supported by the IML procedure and the iml action.

The COUNTN function counts the number of nonmissing values in a matrix. The arguments are as follows:

The method argument is not case-sensitive. The first three characters are used to determine the value.

For example, the following statements count nonmissing values for a matrix x:

x = {1 2 3,
     . 0 2,
     1 . .,
     1 0 . };
totalN = countn(x);
rowN = countn(x, "ROW");
colN = countn(x, "COL");
print totalN, rowN, colN;