topic Re: Retain or Lag for a certain amount of observations in SAS Programming

Retain or Lag for a certain amount of observations

MarcBoh — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 12:45:32 GMT

Hi,

I would like to retain a certain observation in SAS for a certain amount of observations forward.

If a criteria is met (date=announcement_date) then retain the value for the next 60 observations.

I don't want to write 60 lags but also make it flexible and change the 60 to 30 or whatever.

Best,
M

Re: Retain or Lag for a certain amount of observations

art297 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:31:17 GMT

After you've initially found a record that met your criterion and are retaining it for the next 60 observations, do you need to continue to check that criterion on the subsequent records? In short, tell us more about what you are trying to accomplish.

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: Retain or Lag for a certain amount of observations

MarcBoh — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:33:03 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I want to establish an event study and one data set as stocks, dates and prices. the second one has stocks and announcement dates.

So basically always when date=announcement_date I want to fill in an additional (dummy variable) with just ones into the next 60 rows.

Re: Retain or Lag for a certain amount of observations

art297 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:47:07 GMT

I set the iterations to 6 in the following example, but that could be changed to 30, 60 or whatever you want:

data want (drop=counter);
  set have;
  retain dummy;
  if missing(counter) then do;
    if date eq announcement_date then do;
      dummy=x;
      counter=0;
    end;
  end;
  else do;
    counter+1;
    if date eq announcement_date then do;
      dummy=x;
      counter=0;
    end;
    if counter eq 6 then do;
      call missing(counter);
      call missing(dummy);
    end;
  end;
run;

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

Re: Retain or Lag for a certain amount of observations

MarcBoh — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:52:05 GMT

Works like a charm! Thank you!!