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DakotaBison
Calcite | Level 5

Hi all,

I am trying to generate a table with 100 observations, one variable. This is a discrete variable with 4 levels so I used this code below and everything is fine.

data BMI (drop = i) ;

     array prob [4]    (0.01, 0.1, 0.26, 0.63);

     call streaminit(1234);

    

     do i = 1 to 100;

          BMI = rand("Table", of prob

  • );
  •      output;

    end;

    run;

    quit;

    However, what I really want is this to store the proportions (0.01, 0.1, 0.26, 0.63) in a matrix variable z, like this below, and then pass that matrix variable via array, prob

  • into the rand function, as shown below.
  • proc iml;

      use CHIS.RBMI_Freq;

      read all var {PERCENT} into XBMI ;

      Z = ((XBMI[1:4,])*.01);

    print Z;

    run;

    data BMI (drop = i) ;

         array prob

  •    Z ;
  •      call streaminit(1234);

        

         do i = 1 to 100;

              BMI = rand("Table", of prob

  • );
  •      output;

    end;

    run;

    quit;

    When I do this I get an error   Argument 2 to function RAND('Table',.) at line 822 column 15 is invalid.

    I need help. Thanks in advance.

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    ballardw
    Super User

    I don't work much with IML but I would think you could do that as a row operation in IML. Data steo is, as error says, not going to accept that syntax the way you want as Z as called will create a single variable Z which is missing.I don't know if you could instead of Print Z create a macro variable in a format that looks like the values in the first example.

    BTW if you don't want to keep adding Drop i statements use Do _i_= for your loops. The paired underscores tell SAS to treat as a temporary variable and it is automatically dropped from the output.

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