topic Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums in SAS Programming

Moving 2-week cumulative sums

gdaymte — Thu, 07 May 2020 00:03:13 GMT

I have a dataset with a list of facilities and their number of cases by day. I know how calculate cumulative sums over the entire time frame (day 1 to present). I have been asked to calculate a moving 2-week cumulative sum for the last 3 2-week periods. Let's say today is April 28. I would need the cumulative sum between April 15-28 (CumSum1), April 8-21 (CumSum2), and April 1-14 (CumSum3). I have reviewed examples of PROC EXPAND, but I am having a hard time following the syntax. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have:

FacName	DtCreated	CntCase
FACILITY1	04012020	0
FACILITY1	04022020	0
FACILITY1	04032020	0
FACILITY1	04042020	0
FACILITY1	04052020	0
FACILITY1	04062020	0
FACILITY1	04072020	0
FACILITY1	04082020	0
FACILITY1	04092020	0
FACILITY1	04102020	0
FACILITY1	04112020	0
FACILITY1	04122020	0
FACILITY1	04132020	0
FACILITY1	04142020	0
FACILITY1	04152020	0
FACILITY1	04162020	0
FACILITY1	04172020	0
FACILITY1	04182020	0
FACILITY1	04192020	0
FACILITY1	04202020	0
FACILITY1	04212020	0
FACILITY1	04222020	0
FACILITY1	04232020	0
FACILITY1	04242020	1
FACILITY1	04252020	0
FACILITY1	04262020	0
FACILITY1	04272020	0
FACILITY1	04282020	0
FACILITY2	04012020	1
FACILITY2	04022020	0
FACILITY2	04032020	1
FACILITY2	04042020	1
FACILITY2	04052020	1
FACILITY2	04062020	1
FACILITY2	04072020	8
FACILITY2	04082020	31
FACILITY2	04092020	5
FACILITY2	04102020	1
FACILITY2	04112020	0
FACILITY2	04122020	6
FACILITY2	04132020	0
FACILITY2	04142020	3
FACILITY2	04152020	2
FACILITY2	04162020	4
FACILITY2	04172020	0
FACILITY2	04182020	3
FACILITY2	04192020	0
FACILITY2	04202020	3
FACILITY2	04212020	3
FACILITY2	04222020	2
FACILITY2	04232020	1
FACILITY2	04242020	1
FACILITY2	04252020	1
FACILITY2	04262020	0
FACILITY2	04272020	1
FACILITY2	04282020	0

Want:

Facility	CumSum1	CumSum2	CumSum3
FACILITY1	1	0	0
FACILITY2	21	61	0

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

ChrisNZ — Thu, 07 May 2020 00:11:25 GMT

Why not create formats? Since the periods overlap you must remember to use the multilabel option.

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

mkeintz — Thu, 07 May 2020 04:32:37 GMT

PROC EXPAND can easily generate rolling two week sums. The "trick" is to keep only the most recent two week sum. If all your facilities have the same date range (i.e. all end on '28apr2020'd), and they are all recorded daily, then this would work:

proc expand data=have out=want (drop=cntcase where=(dtcreated>='28apr2020'd)) ;
  by facname;
  id dtcreated;
  convert cntcase=sum14 / transformin=(movsum 14);
run;

If the ending date varies between facilities, then a data step might be better:

data want2 (keep=facname dtcreated sum14);
  set have;
  by facname;
  array days14 {0:13} _temporary_;
  if first.facname then call missing(of days14{*});
  days14{mod(_n_,14)}=cntcase;
  if last.facname;
  if n(of days14{*}) then sum14=sum(of days14{*});
run;

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

PGStats — Thu, 07 May 2020 03:50:59 GMT

If the ending date is fixed across facilities, you could do:

*%let td=%sysfunc(date());
/* Or */
%let td=%sysevalf('24apr2020'd);


proc expand data=have out=temp (drop=cntcase where=(dtback in (0,7,14))) ;  
by facname;  
id dtcreated;  
convert cntcase=sum14 / transformin=(movsum 14);
convert dtcreated=dtback / transformout=(neg + &td);
run;

proc transpose data=temp out=want(drop=_name_) prefix=x_;
by facname;
var sum14;
id dtback;
format dtback best.;
run;

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

yabwon — Thu, 07 May 2020 06:59:26 GMT

Hi @gdaymte,

How about conditional aggregation with SQL and little %MACRO? (btw. shouldn't CumSum3 for "Fac2" be 59?)

data have;
  input FacName : $ 12. DtCreated : mmddyy8. CntCase;
  format DtCreated mmddyy10.;
cards4;
FACILITY1 04012020 0
FACILITY1 04022020 0
FACILITY1 04032020 0
FACILITY1 04042020 0
FACILITY1 04052020 0
FACILITY1 04062020 0
FACILITY1 04072020 0
FACILITY1 04082020 0
FACILITY1 04092020 0
FACILITY1 04102020 0
FACILITY1 04112020 0
FACILITY1 04122020 0
FACILITY1 04132020 0
FACILITY1 04142020 0
FACILITY1 04152020 0
FACILITY1 04162020 0
FACILITY1 04172020 0
FACILITY1 04182020 0
FACILITY1 04192020 0
FACILITY1 04202020 0
FACILITY1 04212020 0
FACILITY1 04222020 0
FACILITY1 04232020 0
FACILITY1 04242020 1
FACILITY1 04252020 0
FACILITY1 04262020 0
FACILITY1 04272020 0
FACILITY1 04282020 0
FACILITY2 04012020 1
FACILITY2 04022020 0
FACILITY2 04032020 1
FACILITY2 04042020 1
FACILITY2 04052020 1
FACILITY2 04062020 1
FACILITY2 04072020 8
FACILITY2 04082020 31
FACILITY2 04092020 5
FACILITY2 04102020 1
FACILITY2 04112020 0
FACILITY2 04122020 6
FACILITY2 04132020 0
FACILITY2 04142020 3
FACILITY2 04152020 2
FACILITY2 04162020 4
FACILITY2 04172020 0
FACILITY2 04182020 3
FACILITY2 04192020 0
FACILITY2 04202020 3
FACILITY2 04212020 3
FACILITY2 04222020 2
FACILITY2 04232020 1
FACILITY2 04242020 1
FACILITY2 04252020 1
FACILITY2 04262020 0
FACILITY2 04272020 1
FACILITY2 04282020 0
;;;;
run;

options MPRINT;
proc sql;
  select 
    FacName
    %macro intoThePast(periodsNum, start, date, aggr);
     %do i = 1 %to &periodsNum.;
      %local condition;
      %let condition = "%sysfunc(intnx(days, &start.,  7*( 1-&i.)),date9.)"d 
                       >= DtCreated > 
                       "%sysfunc(intnx(days, &start.,  7*(-1-&i.)),date9.)"d; /* make it -2 for 3 week periods, etc. */
      ,sum(case when &condition. then &aggr.
                                 else 0
           end) as CumSum&i. 
     %end;
    %mend intoThePast;
    %intoThePast(3, '28Apr2020'd, DtCreated, CntCase)
  from 
    have
  group by 
    FacName
  ;
quit;

All the best

Bart

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

gdaymte — Thu, 07 May 2020 13:32:10 GMT

@PGStats The end date will always be the same date. I have also used PROC TIMESERIES to fill in the missing dates and assign a value of 0.

This code works great. What is the word "neg" doing in the transformout segment? Another question, do you know why a sum would come out to be -0? Not all of my zeros are coming out this way, just on occasion.

FacName	X_14	X_7	X_0
Facility1	0	2	2
Facility2	1	-0	0
Facility3	-0	-0	2

Thanks for everyone's help.

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

PGStats — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:07:44 GMT

NEG replaces x with -x . Those minus zeros are certainly small numbers that are rounded to zero for display. This is something that I noticed before, Proc expand is very fast but it doesn't seem to use the same precautions as other SAS procs to prevent rounding error propagation.

Re: Moving 2-week cumulative sums

gdaymte — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:49:26 GMT

Ok thanks. This is very helpful.