Find two central observation of SAS data set.

[abhaykumar]

I have to find  two central observations of a one character variable dataset. It has even number of observation.

dataset is :

 data dset;
infile datalines ;
input sex $ ;
datalines;
M
M
F
F
F
F
M
M
F
F
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
F
F
F
F
F
M
M
;
run;

[PeterClemmensen · Accepted solution]

try this

data want;
   set dset nobs=nobs;
   if _N_ = nobs/2 or _N_ = nobs/2 + 1;
run;

[PeterClemmensen]

I have assumed that you always have an equal number of observations in your dataset 🙂

[abhaykumar]

It works 🙂 Thank you.