Stupid Human Tricks with PROC SURVEYSELECT
David L. Cassell · 2008
Surprisingly, PROC SURVEYSELECT has features which make it useful for some basic, non-statistical, data management tasks. We will cover three simple tasks which may otherwise require coding and/or macro programming.. unless PROC SURVEYSELECT resides in your bag of tricks. We show how to: create a data set by stacking a starting file over and over; sort a data set in a complex order (a ‘serpentine’ sort); and split a data set into two pieces randomly.