More about Missing Values
Missing values in matrices are discussed in 
  
Chapter 3, 
    Understanding the SAS/IML Language.
 You should carefully read that chapter and 
  
Chapter 22, 
    Further Notes,
 so that you are aware of the way SAS/IML software handles missing values. The following examples show how missing values are handled for elementwise operations and for subscript reduction operators. 
Consider the following two matrices  and
 and  :
: 
 The following operations handle missing values in matrices: 
 
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