topic Re: How can I calucalate ratio of two measures? in SAS Visual Analytics

How can I calucalate ratio of two measures?

Dreamer — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:37:06 GMT

Hi,

I'm using SAS VA 7.3.

I have to show ratio of fields in a table.

For this I have created a new calculated measure with following formula:

Calc_Field = Measure1 / (Measure1 + Measure2 + Measure3)

It works fine if I add all categories on the report table.

But if I remove any category, VA sums the values of Calc_Field instead of recalculate the formula.

I think in backend SAS groups by all category variables and based on this it sums up all measure variables.

So basically it is doing sum(Measure1), sum(Measure2), sum(Measure3), sum(Calc_Field).

But I want value of Calc_Field to be calculated based on defined formula once other fields are grouped.

I tried both List table and CrossTab. I also tried different aggregation property of this calculated field but no luck.

Any help or suggestion will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Re: How can I calucalate ratio of two measures?

TejaSurapaneni — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:49:02 GMT

Hi there,

Instead of Calculated Measure Please use Aggregated Measure.

Thanks,

Teja Surapaneni

Re: How can I calucalate ratio of two measures?

Dreamer — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:57:36 GMT

Thanks a lot @TejaSurapaneni it worked and I'm getting the expected result.

Just one minor problem.

If one of my measure is missing then aggregated formula is also returning a missing value.

In base SAS we can use Sum(var1,var2) function to avoid this problem.

But in VA it is giving me syntax error.

What should I modify in this formula to add numbers with missing value?

Sum [_ByGroup_] ('M1'n) / ( Sum [_ByGroup_] ('M2'n) + Sum [_ByGroup_] ('M3'n) )

Any suggestion?

Re: How can I calucalate ratio of two measures?

Dreamer — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:12:54 GMT

For a quick fix I replaced all missing values to 0 (zeros).

It worked for now.

But I'll be looking for a good solution of this problem.

I'm sure there should be some way to negate missing value effect.