topic Re: UNIVARIATE: Override MOde Default? in SAS Programming

UNIVARIATE: Override MOde Default?

davehalltwp — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:03:35 GMT

All the documentation mentions that by default,UNIVARIATE returns the lowest mode in case of a tie (ie, same number of occurrences). I could find no mention of overriding the default and getting the higher in case of a tie. Is that not possible?

Thanks...

Re: UNIVARIATE: Override MOde Default?

Reeza — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:08:20 GMT

There is a MODES option to specify all possibilities and then you could select the highest? Not ideal but fairly easy workaround.

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/procstat/procstat_univariate_syntax01.htm#procstat.univariate.proc_modes

Re: UNIVARIATE: Override MOde Default?

davehalltwp — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:34:35 GMT

ah, did not think of that. I will try, and return to mark as solution. thank you, Reeza (you have helped me a lot in the past as well)...

Re: UNIVARIATE: Override MOde Default?

davehalltwp — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:58:55 GMT

thank you, Reeza, that was a great solution to help me hit deadline...