Date:         Fri, 5 Mar 2004 23:28:08 +0300
Reply-To:     Peter <murderx@MAIL333.COM>
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From:         Peter <murderx@MAIL333.COM>
Organization: Golden Telecom
Subject:      Re: Variable creation
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Good evening,

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:46:06 -0500 Jay Weedon <jweedon@earthlink.net>
wrote about "Re: Variable creation":

> >I have the following problem. There is a SAS dataset with one numeric
> >vaiable X and "n" observations . Want to create variable Y, where the
> >i-th observation of Y equal to the product of all previous observations
> >of X. In other words: Y1=X1, Yi=Y(i-1)*Xi for i=2,3...,n. How can I make
> >it by the means of SAS.
>
> data new;
>   set old;
>   retain y 1;
>   y=y*x;
> run;

Thanks a lot. Works perfect!

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