Hi all,
I am new to SAS and I find myself needing your help for the first time, so apologies in advance for any mistakes.
I have a dataset containing the variables 'Price' and 'Time' for every transaction executed in a given period for a stock.
I need to subset this dataset by only selecting the observations for which the cumulative price change is greater than a constant amount 'c'.
So that:
>the first observation of the new dataset is the same as the original
>then, we select only observations for which the absolute difference between Price(i) and the previously selected Price(i)* is greater than or equal to a constant c, say 0.25.
I am using SAS University Edition.
Try next code:
%let c = 0.25;
data want;
set have;
retain prev_selected_price;
if _N_=1 then do;
output;
prev_selected_price = price;
end;
else if abs(price - prev_selected_price) ge &c
then do;
output;
prev_selected_price = price; /* ??? */
end;
run;
Try next code:
%let c = 0.25;
data want;
set have;
retain prev_selected_price;
if _N_=1 then do;
output;
prev_selected_price = price;
end;
else if abs(price - prev_selected_price) ge &c
then do;
output;
prev_selected_price = price; /* ??? */
end;
run;
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