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Shaha13
Calcite | Level 5

Hi all,

I need to run a pretty large multinomial comparison. I have a list of 2,000 different medicines, and I have computed their frequency "pre" and "post" (relative to a change in the experiment). I want to do a Pearson's test to see which of these medicines have significantly different proportional representations in the "post" sample.

So, my data look like:

Drug:     Pre:     Post:

A          x1%         y1%

B          x2%          y2%

...

If I had a smaller list -- say 3 medicines -- I would use:

PROC FREQ data=tmp

tables drug / chisq testp=( X Y Z )

RUN;

But, I have around 2000 levels, and I don't want to type them out. I don't think proc freq can take the hypothesized values from inside the data, as I need. Is there another procedure that can handle such an input method? Or, is there a way I can batch/script this to produce the needed output?

Thanks.

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Ksharp
Super User

Why not make a macro variable to hold these X Y Z ?

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