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Walternate
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi,

I have data composed of an ID variable, a continuous variable (values 1-100), and a categorical variable (200 possible values), like this:

ID     cont_var     cat_var

1         30               1

2         25               2

3         42               2

4         97               1

5         55               1

6         12               2

The data are unique at the ID level.

What I want is to add a variable that summarizes the median of the cont_var by level of cat_var, like this:

ID     cont_var     cat_var     new_var

1         30               1             55     

2         25               2             25

3         42               2             25

4         97               1             55

5         55               1             55

6         12               2             25

I know how to do this by collapsing the data to levels of the categorical variable, but since I ultimately want to keep my dataset at the individual ID level, I'm hoping there's a way to do it without collapsing and rejoining.

Any help is much appreciated.

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

If you have 9.4, then:

data have;

     input ID     cont_var     cat_var;

     cards;

1         30               1

2         25               2

3         42               2

4         97               1

5         55               1

6         12               2

;

proc sql;

     create table want as

           select *, median(cont_var) as median from have group by cat_var

                order by id;

quit;

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

If you have 9.4, then:

data have;

     input ID     cont_var     cat_var;

     cards;

1         30               1

2         25               2

3         42               2

4         97               1

5         55               1

6         12               2

;

proc sql;

     create table want as

           select *, median(cont_var) as median from have group by cat_var

                order by id;

quit;

ballardw
Super User

proc summary data=have nway;

     class cat_var;

     var cont_var;

     output out= med median=;

run;

proc sql;

     create table want as

     select a.*, b.cont_var as new var

     from have as a left join med as b on

          a.cat_var=b.cat_var

     order by ID;

quit;

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