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Aexor
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

This Table has temperatures(temp1 to temp6)  in Celsius. I need convert it to Fahrenheit.

I have this table 

data temp;
input temp1 temp2 temp3 temp4 temp5 temp6;
datalines;
90 20 90 55 48 20
80 . 33 87 49 79
40 20 80 55 38 20
90 . 63 87 99 89
;
run;

 

I want this conversion Temp1 = Temp1 × 9/5 + 32 for every temp1 to temp6 and also for missing value we need to replace it with 99.

 

Please help me with this. 

 

 

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data temp;
input temp1 temp2 temp3 temp4 temp5 temp6;
datalines;
90 20 90 55 48 20
80 . 33 87 49 79
40 20 80 55 38 20
90 . 63 87 99 89
;
run;
data want;
     set temp;
     array t temp:;
     do i=1 to dim(t);
          t(i)=t(i)*1.8+32;
      end;
    drop i;
run;

I would strongly advice against replacing a missing with a non-missing in this case. So I am not going to code that. (Yes, in some modeling or other analyses, people impute a value for a missing, which is fine, but they don't replace missings with 99).

--
Paige Miller

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data temp;
input temp1 temp2 temp3 temp4 temp5 temp6;
datalines;
90 20 90 55 48 20
80 . 33 87 49 79
40 20 80 55 38 20
90 . 63 87 99 89
;
run;
data want;
     set temp;
     array t temp:;
     do i=1 to dim(t);
          t(i)=t(i)*1.8+32;
      end;
    drop i;
run;

I would strongly advice against replacing a missing with a non-missing in this case. So I am not going to code that. (Yes, in some modeling or other analyses, people impute a value for a missing, which is fine, but they don't replace missings with 99).

--
Paige Miller
Aexor
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Can we have any option to replace missing to something else ?
Astounding
PROC Star

I can't begin to tell you what a horrible idea it is to change missing values to 99.  What could you possibly gain by doing this?  You would definitely lose.  99 is a perfectly viable temperature on a Fahrenheit scale.  How would you know whether 99 represents a missing value or an actual value?  How would you remove 99 when you want to compute the average temperature?

Aexor
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Correct! Thanks for pointing out!
Something like charioteer value will be apt fro this .
I just want to distinguish missing to something else.
Could you please help me with this
Astounding
PROC Star

This would be a way:

 

if temp1 = . then temp1 = .M;

 

SAS supports 27 flavors of missing value for numerics, not just a dot.  So missing values will print as an M instead of a dot.

 

When assigning a special missing value, the dot before the M is correct.

PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@Aexor wrote:

Something like charioteer value will be apt fro this .
I just want to distinguish missing to something else.

Can we have any option to replace missing to something else ?


I don't know what this means, or what you want here. Why isn't leaving it as missing acceptable? What is the need for something else?

--
Paige Miller
Aexor
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
requirement was like this so remove missing value to something else.
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@Aexor wrote:
requirement was like this so remove missing value to something else.

I'm sorry this won't help you, but this requirement is sheer madness to replace a missing with a non-missing, just because. There are indeed cases where you have a specific analysis in mind, and you replace the missing with a mean or median or some imputed value, based upon some statistical reasoning and the intended analysis, but I can't see how that applies here.

 

So, I hope the lesson you learn from me (which again, I understand doesn't help you) is that replacing a missing with a non-missing just for no reason whatsoever is not a good thing to do, such a bad thing to do that I won't create SAS code to do it.

--
Paige Miller

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