Thank you so much, this works perfectly and is exactly what I needed.  ... View more

Thank you for your prompt reply.   A few questions:    For the following line    y1=j(&nobs,ncol(x),nleng(y)); I am assuming it is meant to be ncol(y) instead of ncol(x)   Furthermore, for  the following lines of code:   do j=1 to ncol(y); y1[,j]=t(sample(y[,j],&nobs)); end; I don't see any problem with it but SAS Studio is throwing an error     ERROR: (execution) Invalid argument to function. operation : [ at line 104 column 18 operands : y1, , j, _TEM1003     ... View more

 How would you modify this to generate a specified number of records? This solution generates the same number of records as were existing in the dataset which we sampled from.  ... View more