Hi, I am a student using SAS studio to analyze a set of repeated measures data. The beginning of my dataset looks like this: subject trt sex age visit time visual 1 Active F 71 1 0 59 1 Active F 71 2 4 55 1 Active F 71 3 12 45 2 Active F 59 1 0 65 2 Active F 59 2 4 70 2 Active F 59 3 12 65 2 Active F 59 4 24 65 2 Active F 59 5 52 55 3 Placebo F 73 1 0 40 3 Placebo F 73 2 4 40 3 Placebo F 73 3 12 37 3 Placebo F 73 4 24 17 In this dataset, "visual" is the outcome measure/response variable. Each subject had the opportunity to have the variable "visual" evaluated 5 times-i.e. at visits 1-5. However, not all subjects made it to all 5 visits. For example, as labeled in red above, subject 1 only had 3 visits, and subject 3 had 4 visits. Subject 2 had all 5. I would like to enter missing data lines for the missing data. For example: 3 Placebo F 73 5 52 . to indicate that this data is missing. I would like to do a nonlinear mixed models analysis of this repeated measures data using proc mixed or proc nlmixed. My questions are: 1. Is there an efficient way in SAS to identify which subjects do not have all 5 visits and then enter the missing data? 2. If data is missing, do I need to enter it into the dataset as I'm describing? Or can I do my analysis without adding these missing rows? I have the impression from the attached SAS guide pages 5-8, that maybe I don't need to add in the missing data lines if I specify the repeated statement appropriately. I was planning to use the answer from this question: https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Adding-extra-data-to-existing-dataset/td-p/117310 to add my missing data lines (or just to enter them in manually), but I was wondering if there is a better way to identify which subjects are missing visit data, rather than going through the 1101 observations in the dataset manually. Thank you in advance for your help! Sheila
... View more