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;
try this
data want;
set dset nobs=nobs;
if _N_ = nobs/2 or _N_ = nobs/2 + 1;
run;
try this
data want;
set dset nobs=nobs;
if _N_ = nobs/2 or _N_ = nobs/2 + 1;
run;
I have assumed that you always have an equal number of observations in your dataset 🙂
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