February 2018
Beginner
366 pages
7h 2m
English
Useful Tools for Working with Longitudinal Data
Describing First. and Last. Variables
Computing Visit-to-Visit Differences
Computing Differences Between the First and Last Visits
Counting the Number of Visits for Each Patient
Because SAS processes one observation at a time, you need special programming tools when you want to analyze data where there are multiple observations per subject or any other grouping variable. For example, suppose you have a data set in which each observation represents a patient visit to a clinic. You record the patient ID, the date of the visit, and some health-related values. Some common programming tasks would ...