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abhaykumar
Obsidian | Level 7

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;

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

try this

 

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

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

try this

 

data want;
   set dset nobs=nobs;
   if _N_ = nobs/2 or _N_ = nobs/2 + 1;
run;
PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20

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

abhaykumar
Obsidian | Level 7
It works 🙂 Thank you.

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