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_maldini_
Barite | Level 11

I'm trying to transform a continuous variable that contains all positive values, using a variety of functions (See code). 

 

        logPAMIN  	 = log (SCORE);
	log10PAMIN       = log10 (SCORE);
	rootPAMIN        = sqrt (SCORE);
	expPAMIN   	 = exp (SCORE/10);

The LOG and LOG10 functions return an error message relatiing to an invalid argument. 

 

Any ideas what's going on?

 

Thanks.

 

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Reeza
Super User

When this happens you'll get missing values. So you can filter your data and figure out what's going on yourself 😉

 

My guess - 0 or missing values. 

 

 

data check;
set have;
where missing (logpamin);
run;

proc means data=check n min max;
var score;
run;

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Reeza
Super User

When this happens you'll get missing values. So you can filter your data and figure out what's going on yourself 😉

 

My guess - 0 or missing values. 

 

 

data check;
set have;
where missing (logpamin);
run;

proc means data=check n min max;
var score;
run;
_maldini_
Barite | Level 11

@Reeza You were correct. Zero values were being converted to missing. Thanks!

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