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lgutm18
Fluorite | Level 6

Hello,

I am trying to perform imputation of missing values with the MODE in a few categorical variables, but have not been successful yet. I'd greatly appreciate some insight. 

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Ksharp
Super User
data have;
 set sashelp.heart(keep=smoking_Status);
run;



proc freq data=have order=freq;
table smoking_Status /out=mode;
run;
data mode2(rename=(smoking_Status=_smoking_Status));
 set mode(keep=smoking_Status where=(smoking_Status is not missing) obs=1);
run;
data want;
 set have;
 if _n_=1 then set mode2;
 if missing(smoking_Status) then smoking_Status=_smoking_Status;
 drop _smoking_Status;
run;

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