Hey all,
I am trying to calculate Market Potential and struggling with it. What I have is 49 countries, their GDP and the distances between them (so a 49*49 matrix with 0 on the diagonal, for the distance). The formula to calculate market potential is to sum the distance-weighted GDP, i.e. MarketPotential(germany) = Summation (GDP of all acountries except k)/Distance between them.
Does anyone have any idea how to do this? Your help is much appreciated.
Sample Data:
Country GDP Col1 Col2 Col3.............Col49
Germany 5 0 3 1 2
France 4 1 0 2 1
Belgium 1 1 2 0 1
So basically Market potential for Germany = (GDP of france)/Distance between germany and france (3 in this case) + (GDP of Belgium)/(Distance between Ger and Bel (1 in this case)
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
OK. How about this :
data have; input Country $ GDP Col1 Col2 Col3 ; cards; Germany 5 0 3 1 France 4 1 0 2 Belgium 1 1 2 0 ; run; data have; set have; k=cats('Col',_n_); run; data want; if _n_ eq 1 then do; if 0 then set have(keep=k gdp rename=(gdp=_gdp)); declare hash ha(dataset:'have(keep=k gdp rename=(gdp=_gdp))'); ha.definekey('k'); ha.definedata('_gdp'); ha.definedone(); end; set have; array x{*} col: ; sum=0; do i=1 to dim(x); if _n_ ne i then do; k=vname(x{i}); ha.find(); sum + _gdp/x{i}; end; end; run;
Ksharp
OK. How about this :
data have; input Country $ GDP Col1 Col2 Col3 ; cards; Germany 5 0 3 1 France 4 1 0 2 Belgium 1 1 2 0 ; run; data have; set have; k=cats('Col',_n_); run; data want; if _n_ eq 1 then do; if 0 then set have(keep=k gdp rename=(gdp=_gdp)); declare hash ha(dataset:'have(keep=k gdp rename=(gdp=_gdp))'); ha.definekey('k'); ha.definedata('_gdp'); ha.definedone(); end; set have; array x{*} col: ; sum=0; do i=1 to dim(x); if _n_ ne i then do; k=vname(x{i}); ha.find(); sum + _gdp/x{i}; end; end; run;
Ksharp
Ksharp, You're the man!!! Thank you. The sum gives exactly what I want. Although I don't understand much of what you did. But I'll try and look it up. thanks.
Hey Ksharp,
I was trying to do what you did. But I ran into a problem. When i run it, it says ERROR: KEY NOT FOUND
And I realize its for ha.find() command. But i'm not sure how to fix the problem. i tried doing something random like rc=ha.(find) but don't know how to correct the program. Appreciate your help once again.
So are you sure there are 49 countries, and there are Col1-Col49 in dataset ? and have the same variable name Col1 ...... not col1 or COL1 .
Hey Ksharp,
I have 49 countries, and there are col1-col49 in the dataset with the same variable name. When i did rc=ha.find(), the program runs, but the sum is zero. if i just do ha.find(), it says ERROR: Key not found.
Can't seem to figure out the problem. Been trying for a while now.
Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
OH. in your origin post ,it is Col, not your said col .they are different for HashTable . Therefore Change it . I am sure you will get what you want.
k=cats('col',_n_);
And try use it.
array x{*} col1-col49 ;
Ksharp
Message was edited by: xia keshan
Hey,
Sorry I didn't realize that uppercase/lowercase mattered in Hash table. The program ran after that. Thank you.
But ran into another problem. Most of the distances are 0 because they are two far away from each other, so while calculating the sum, many will be divided by 0, and hte program will give an error. Is there a way to correct it?
Sorry, I don't use SAS much, and you've been tremendous help. Thanks again.
OH. You can use divide() to avoid these error message.
_gdp/x{i}; <=> divide(_gdp,x{i});
Ksharp
It worked
Thank you much!! I really appreciate it.
Hey Ksharp,
I wanted calculate the weighted gdp of other countries to find the market potential now. So my original sample
Sample Data: ( The col1-49 show the distance between the two countries and is symmetric)
Country GDP Col1 Col2 Col3.............Col49
Germany 5 0 3 1 2
France 4 3 0 2 1
Belgium 1 1 2 0 1
Now to calculate the market potential for Germany, I need: MktPot = [(France GDP * France Distance from Germany) + (Belgium GDP * Belgium distance from Germany)] / (Sum of the distances)
In this sample data, MktPot Germany = [ (4*3) + (1*1) ] / (3+1)
Can you please help me on how to go about that. I was a bit confused on calculating the row sum as desired. Thanks much again. You're a savior.
Hey, I figured it out. I just added a new variable just like sum to calculate to the sum of the rows/columns. It worked. thanks for helping though.
Key of your problem is to line up your rows and your columns. You could use two dimension Array, Or you can just use a 2x DOW:
data have;
input Country $ GDP Col1 Col2 Col3 ;
cards;
Germany 5 0 3 1
France 4 1 0 2
Belgium 1 1 2 0
;
data want;
do _n_=1 by 1 until (last);
set have end=last;
array t(3) _temporary_;
array c(3) col:;
do i=1 to 3;
t(_n_)=gdp;
end;
end;
do until (last1);
set have end=last1;
do i=1 to 3;
if c(i) ne 0 then potential+t(i)/c(i);
end;
output;
potential=0;
end;
run;
Haikuo
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