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Jest
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi,

 

I have a longitudinal dataset of 800 subjects who got measurements at different time points over time. I want to create a dataset that includes only first measurements (baseline)....The data looks like the below:

 

ID      VISIT        feature

1           2               .

1           3             3.77

1           4             8.88

1           5             5.22

1           6             2.21

2           1              .

2           3              .

2           4             6.88

2           5             7.77

2           6             8.54

 

I am using the following code:

 

data want;

set have;

by ID VISIT;

if first.ID and first.VISIT;

run;

 

However, it doesn't seem to work. The data should look like this:

 

ID   VISIT   feature

1      3       3.77

2      4       6.88

 

any advice would be appreciated...

 

Thanks!

  

 

 

 

 

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Reeza
Super User

Because you want to ignore missing you should drop them as well.

 

data want;
set have (where =(not missing(feature)));
by ID VISIT;
if first.ID;

run;

 

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Reeza
Super User

Because you want to ignore missing you should drop them as well.

 

data want;
set have (where =(not missing(feature)));
by ID VISIT;
if first.ID;

run;

 

Jest
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you Reeza. This was very helpful.

 

Quick question: Is there also a way to pick only the third or fourth observation, and not just the first?

In other words is there a third.ID command?

 

Thanks.

 

Reeza
Super User

No, there’s first and last. But you can use first to set a counter and use the counter as desired. 

 

If first.id then counter =1;

else counter+1;

CurlerBob
Fluorite | Level 6

You need to eliminate the "and first.VISIT".  The sort requires using the VISIT variable to order the records so the first visit is the first record for the ID.  But for the actual selection, you only need first.ID.

ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

Also note that 

  first.VIST

is always true when  

  first.ID

so 

  if first.ID and first.VISIT;

is the same as

  if first.ID;

 

To summarise the suggestions: 

 

data WANT;
  set HAVE;
  where FEATURE;
  by ID VISIT;
  if first.ID ;
run;

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