In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of
every test in 6 subjects , each subject teacher submit the
marks of every student at different times and loaded in the
database commonly. How will you seperate the top two
subject marks for each each studet using SAS?

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In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of every test in 6 subjects , each subject t..

Answer / bakul shah

/*
Bakul Shah
6/May/2009
*/
Data A ;
Array N{6};
Input Name $ N{*} ;
Call SortN(of N{*}); /* Sort for Intergers */
Put @5 Name $ @10 N{6} 3. +2 N{5} 3.;/* 6th and 5th */
DataLines;
David 76 81 65 87 78 98
Manisha 100 91 67 86 87 81
Bob 83 93 76 88 96 72
;
Run;
*;

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In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of every test in 6 subjects , each subject t..

Answer / ashutosh

slightly modified

data nrate;
set rating;
array r{6} a -- f;
do i=1 to 6;
*for first maximum;
if r{i}>max1 then
do
max2=max1;
max1=r{i};
end;
*for second maximum;
if r{i}>max2 and r{i}<max1 then max2=r{i};
end;


proc print data=nrate;
run;

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In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of every test in 6 subjects , each subject t..

Answer / ashokmudrathi

data rating;
input a b c d e f;
cards;
1 54 21 5 7 2
2 21 54 67 3 5
;
*here 1000 observations with above variables;

data nrate;
set rating;
array r{6} a -- f;
do i=1 to 6;
*for first maximum;
if r{i}>max1 then max1=r{i};
*for second maximum;
if r{i}>max2 and r{i}<max1 then max2=r{i};
end;

proc print;
run;

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In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of every test in 6 subjects , each subject t..

Answer / santosh reddy

data x;
set rating;
max1=max(of a--f);
array aa(6) a--f;
do i=1 to 6;
if aa(i)>max2 and aa(i)<max1 then max2=aa(i);
end;
run;

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In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of every test in 6 subjects , each subject t..

Answer / basha

just i imagine data in data base is;
like below output dataset:
data rating;
input name $ a b c d e f;
cards;
raj 1 54 21 5 7 2
jar 2 21 54 67 3 5
;
answer:

proc sort data=rating;
by name;
run;
proc transpose data=rating out=marks(rename=(col1=marks
_name_=subjects) drop=_label_);
by name;
run;
proc sort data=marks;
by descending marks name;
run;
data jj;
set marks;
by name;
if first.name then ind=0;
ind+1;
run;
proc print;
where ind in(1,2);
run;

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In a shcool there are 1000 students. After completion of every test in 6 subjects , each subject t..

Answer / hahaha

proc sort data=marks;
by name descending marks ;/*for answer 2, just change the
order*/

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