create the dummy variables for the character variables in the dataset

[relish]

I want to join the two datasets to do the analyzing work, while for one data file, all the variables are characters, so how to transform them?

[art297]

Provide an example of what you have and what you want.

Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com

[relish]

sorry for misunderstanding, I am analyzing the customer lifetime value related content, while one variable is called lifstage, which is divided to on-contract, off-contract, expiry,pre-expiry,early tenured, so I want to create dummy virables to modify them, but I do not know how to use sas EG to complete it, or is there any other good methods to finish the relationship analyzing?

[Reeza]

Depending on the model you're running, if you include it in the Categorical or CLASS list SAS will automatically do this for you.

Otherwise, here are several ways to create dummy variables:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/How-to-create-dummy-variables-Categorical-Var...

[relish]

thanks so much for your relay, I have tried the glmmod method, while the final resultes include too many vairables so SAS was filed to open the result¬¬

[Reeza]

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@relish wrote:

thanks so much for your relay, I have tried the glmmod method, while the final resultes include too many vairables so SAS was filed to open the result¬¬

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Is that failed to open? How many variables did you have? I can only see that happening if you tried to include a continuous variable in the CLASS list.