Can I specify the seed for EACH replication in Proc surveyselect?

[birpech0]

Hello there,

I would like to ask if there is a way to specify not only the initial seed number, but a seed for each replication when using replicate in PROC surveyselect?

The background of my question is, I want to compare two ways to do 2-stage-sampling in PROC survey select, one using replicate and one using loops. The latter results should be correct, so I have a benchmark. But as both procedures (hopefully) do the same things in different order, I cannot compare them properly with only the initial seed number. Without controlling for subsequent draws, I cannot decide if different results stem from random influences or if there is some systematic difference (i.e. some mistake).

PS. I had problems in sending this message, so I hope there was not double posting.

Thanks for your help

Birgit

[PGStats]

You can get initial seeds for each stratum in stratified sampling but not for each replicate in replicated sampling. So, simulate the later with the former.

data c;
set sashelp.class;
do rep = 1 to 10;
    output;
    end;
run;

proc sort data=c; by rep; run;

proc surveyselect data=c out=samples seed=12345 outseed sampsize=12; 
strata rep;
run;
;

data _null_;
do until(last.rep);
    set samples; by rep;
    end;
call execute(catt(
    "proc surveyselect data=sashelp.class out=s sampsize=12 seed=",
    initialSeed,
    "; run; proc append base=sample2 data=s; run;"));
run;

Samples (pseudo replicated samples) and Sample2 (samples from a loop) are the same.

[birpech0]

Thanks so much for your help! This is very useful and time-saving.

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