Hi,
I have searched around online for answers on the fastest way, in a database of around a million rows, to select the top and bottom observarions each for a selected few variables. It could either be the top/bottom 100 obs, or selected based on some criteria (for example; select all observations above/below a certain value, or above/below 1 standard deviation from the mean etc.).
To clarify, I want to create a new dataset for each of the variables I want the tob/bottom values from . Does anyone have some code-examples to share?
Best regards,
Hank
PROC RANK?
PROC SURVEYSELECT?
I have tried it and maybe my coding is poor, but it only gives you the ranking of the variables. To proceed, I would then have to select the top and bottom of the ranks which in my dataset adds no value. Not familiar with proc surveyselect, but will check it out.
I don't see how SURVEYSELECT will help.
How do you define top and bottom.
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