How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?
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Answer / ganesh
use nodupkey in proc sort automatically the duplicate key
going to delete.
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Answer / ganesh
we can delete the observation by using NODUP.
proc sort data=name nodup;
by varname;
run;
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Answer / haritha
In data step first dot variable and last dot variable use
to delete the duplicate values.
by using no dup we delete the duplicate values in row wise
and no dup key is used to delete the duplicate values in
column wise it means observation
and distinct is use to delete the duplicate values in proc
sql
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Answer / chirag patel
using Nodup you can delete duplicate observation
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Answer / roopanwita
There is stage called Remove Duplicate to delete duplicate
record and also Sort stage do same funtion.Otherwise if
source databse is a table,then in source SQL we can select
distinct value.
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Answer / thirumalesh
NoDupKey is to delete duplicate observations based on by variables as a key variable, Noduprecs is to delete multiple observations with same values(repeated values).
also it can be done using proc sql,
and using fist and last statements in if condiotion.
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