Hello,
I have a dataset of hospital admissions with multiple observations per patient. I'm looking to delete patient records based on the value of a binary variable (RANK) in the dataset. The first record for each patient should have a value 1 for RANK. If there are records within the patient ID that have a 0 before a 1 for RANK, I want to delete them. Any records within each patient id with a 0 after 1 for RANK should be kept. Here is an example of the data:
data have:
RANK ID
1 1
1 2
0 2
1 3
0 4
1 4
0 4
1 5
0 6
1 6
1 7
0 8
0 8
1 8
0 8
data want:
RANK ID
1 1
1 2
0 2
1 3
1 4
0 4
1 5
1 6
1 7
1 8
0 8
I'm not sure how to go about this -- any coding suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you.
Sort by ID and date (or whatever you got for a time series).
Do data step with
date want;
set have;
by id;
retain flag;
if first.id then flag = 0;
if rank = 1 then flag = 1;
if flag;
drop flag;
run;
Sort by ID and date (or whatever you got for a time series).
Do data step with
date want;
set have;
by id;
retain flag;
if first.id then flag = 0;
if rank = 1 then flag = 1;
if flag;
drop flag;
run;
yes that does it, thank you.
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