Date:         Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:41:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Syb it <sas_datalover@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Syb it <sas_datalover@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sampling in SAS
Comments: To: "data _null_," <datanull@gmail.com>
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Data_null:

  Questions:

  1) Can this be done in Proc SQL?
  and in your code below:
  2) do I = 1 to 2e3; Is 2e3 the maximum number of records in my original data?
  3) and that seed number? What exactly is it?

  Thanks,


"data _null_;" <datanull@gmail.com> wrote:
  SURVEYSELECT is a good choice if you have SAS/STAT software.

data work.aFewThousand;
do I = 1 to 2e3;
output;
end;
run;
proc surveyselect
seed = 205872001 /* use a different number */
method = srs /* Simple Random Sampling */
data = work.afewthousand
out = work.OneHundred
n = 100
;
run;
proc print;
run;

On 2/12/07, Syb it wrote:
> How does one generate a random sample in SAS? LEts say you had a couple thousand observations but one only wanted 100 randomly selected from the bigger database? Any clues?
>
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