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Pyrite | Level 9

 

 

data want; set have;
retain z;
if first.SUBJECT then z = 1;
else z = z + 1;
by SUBJECT;
run;

 

After I run the above code, how can I remove the SUBJECT if last.SUBJECT is less than 3 (not the observation of "z LT 3", but the SUBJECT), which means if the SUBJECT has less than 4 records, then they will be deleted.

 

Thanks as always

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zimcom
Pyrite | Level 9
Thank you so much, really appreciated!
zimcom
Pyrite | Level 9

Another related question, in the dataset, now each subject has at least 4 records (up to the maximum of 6). I want to do another subset of only those subjects where the difference between the 2nd to 3rd, 3rd to 4th, 4th to 5th, etc., jumped great than 4 points from the previous one. 

 

Thanks again!

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