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yael
Quartz | Level 8

Hello

 

I created a correlation matrix via PROC CORR and found that the variable FF, which is dummy variable, has no values with 3 other variables (which are continous variables). I attached here the result as I got

 

Any clue why this is happened?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Correlation.png

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Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

This would happen if your FF variable is constant. The formula for the Pearson correlation has a denominator that contains the variance of the two variables. A constant variable has variance=0, which makes the correlation coefficient undefined. For example:

 

data a;
set sashelp.class;
c = 1;    /* constant value */
run;

proc corr data=a;
run;

 

 

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Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

This would happen if your FF variable is constant. The formula for the Pearson correlation has a denominator that contains the variance of the two variables. A constant variable has variance=0, which makes the correlation coefficient undefined. For example:

 

data a;
set sashelp.class;
c = 1;    /* constant value */
run;

proc corr data=a;
run;

 

 

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