I have a variable for hourly earnings which respondents can answer with accuracy to the penny. So the mean is like $27, but toward the bottom there is so much small variation in reporting, so it has one person at $11.61 one person at $11.63 two people at $11.67, etc.. but when you get higher there's just clumps of people at $15.00 and $25.00.
So if I graph it, the chart has many more values at the low end and it skews the chart. Is there a way to automatically recode them to all be in clumps increasing by $0.50 or something (without manually recoding hundreds of ranges)?
You would still have a skewed distribution, but you could use the round function to adjust the salaries. e.g.:
data have; input salary; datalines; 11.53 11.48 12.10 12.49 12.74 12.75 ; data want; set have; round_salary=round(salary,0.5); run;
Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com
ROUND(variable, 0.50)
I thought that's what a histogram did? It bins it automatically?
You would still have a skewed distribution, but you could use the round function to adjust the salaries. e.g.:
data have; input salary; datalines; 11.53 11.48 12.10 12.49 12.74 12.75 ; data want; set have; round_salary=round(salary,0.5); run;
Art, CEO, AnalystFinder.com
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