topic Find two central observation of SAS data set. in SAS Programming

Find two central observation of SAS data set.

abhaykumar — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:07:40 GMT

I have to find two central observations of a one character variable dataset. It has even number of observation.

dataset is :

data dset;
infile datalines ;
input sex $ ;
datalines;
M
M
F
F
F
F
M
M
F
F
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
;
run;

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:13:45 GMT

try this

data want;
   set dset nobs=nobs;
   if _N_ = nobs/2 or _N_ = nobs/2 + 1;
run;

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:23:49 GMT

I have assumed that you always have an equal number of observations in your dataset 🙂

abhaykumar — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:30:11 GMT

It works 🙂 Thank you.