Date:         Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:02:53 -0500
Reply-To:     "Michael S. Zdeb" <msz03@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US>
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From:         "Michael S. Zdeb" <msz03@HEALTH.STATE.NY.US>
Subject:      ZERO Counts
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Hello....re....

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using this:
>
> proc freq noprint;
>         tables dayofyr*hour/list out=temp;
> run;
>
> to dump an hourly count to a file.  This works fine except that zero events
are
> ignored.
> So if no events occurred in hour five, hour five is skipped and no zero is
> indicated.
> I would be very happy if somone could help me with this simple problem,

The MISSING option solutions posted assume real observations with missing
values, not missing observations with real values.  In this case, there are no
observations.  I think the solution is the SPARSE option, not MISSING.


Mike Zdeb
New York State Department of Health
ESP Tower - Room 1811
Albany, NY   12237
P/518-473-2855  F/630-604-1475