Creating a Population Similar to Test Population

[silvergrenade]

Hi All,

I have a test population with an average spend of 4520 while the control population has an average spend of 3700$. My aim is to remove certain Control people so as to make the average spends similar. The control and test are about 20000 obs each.

How do I do this in SAS?

Your help would be greatly appreciated. 

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

Please read this thread

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/How-can-I-extract-sample-with-desired-statistics...

[PGStats]

A solution was proposed (and accepted) here:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/How-to-random-sample-with-desired-aggregate-stat...

[silvergrenade]

Thank you for replying..
Your help really helped.

🙂