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AlexeyS
Pyrite | Level 9

I am looking for SAS code to calculate the medcouple, has anyone such knowledge?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medcouple

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Ksharp
Super User

It is my first time to hear this term. I don't know if @Rick_SAS  could write some IML code to make it happen.

AlexeyS
Pyrite | Level 9

Unfortunately, I need it in SAS BASE, and not in SAS IML.

 

Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

I am familiar with this concept, but I do not have any non-IML code to share.

mkeintz
PROC Star

Here's the brute force way.  I.e. it doesn't take advantage of the "fast" algorithm in the Wikipedia reference. so it won't scale well against larger datasets.

 

The example finds the medcouple stat for variable CLOSE in sashelp.stocks for IBM stocks (N=233).  If you have a test data set to confirm correctness of the algorithm, I'd suggest running it.

 

data have (keep=date close);
  set sashelp.stocks;
  where stock='IBM';
run;


proc means data=have noprint;
  output out=median  median=median;
  var close;
run;


data vneed (keep=h) / view=vneed;
  set have end=end_of_have;
  if _n_=1 then set median;

  array upper{2000} _temporary_; /* distance of upper obs to median*/
  array lower{2000} _temporary_; /* distance of lower obs to median*/

  if close>=median then do;
    P+1;
    upper{p}=close-median;
  end;
  if close<=median then do;
    Q+1;
    lower{q}=median-close;
  end;

  if end_of_have;
  do i=1 to P;
    do j=1 to Q;
      if upper{i}=0 and lower{j}=0 then h=sign(P-1-i-j);
      else h= (upper{i}-lower{j})/(upper{i}+lower{j});
      output;
    end;
  end;
run;
proc means data=vneed median; var h;
run;

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peiting
Calcite | Level 5

Hi, I'm newbie here. may I clarify array upper {2000} and lower {2000}? is the 2000 is the max & min value of the dataset?

 

Thank you!

 

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