How would you delete duplicate observations?

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / mohan reddy

NODUP OR NODUPREC OPTION IN PROC SORT STATEMENT.
EX;
PROC SORT DATA=EMP NODUP;
RUN;

NODUPKEY OPTION WILL ALSO DELETE THE DUPLICATE OBSERVATION
VALUES.BUT IT CAN USE THE BY VARIABLE.

EX

PROC SORT DATA=EMP NODUPKEY;
BY ENO;
RUN;

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / vijay

NODUP: in proc sort will delete duplication observations
NODUPKEY: deletes duplicate observation values of Key
variables

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / ananth

nodupkey option in proc sort statement.

Or use first.byvaribale or last.byvariable in data step.

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / prr

In Proc sort:
NoDupkey: TO delete duplicate observations based on By variable.
NoDuprecs: It looksup complete observation and delete
duplicate observations.
Nodup: it is a sas key word tells to sas, to delete
duplicate observations and keep only first one.

in Data step: First. and Last.

In Proc sql: Distinct Clause.
Process of SQL: 1.Select
2.group by
3.having
4.distinct
5.order by

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / ganesh

When you want elemenate duplicate values from dataset using
nodup option in the procedure sort.
When you want elemenate duplicate keys from specified
variables then use nodupkey option in the procedure sort.

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / reddy

nodup will eliminate the successive duplicate value only.
nodupkey eliminates all the duplicate values in a mentioned
variable.

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / raj

nodupkey

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / thirumalesh.e.

We can delete using Proc NoDupkey NoDuprecs and
NoDuplicates, then by Dupsort system option, then
if.first . last, Proc sql, create by select * unique ...

OK.

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How would you delete duplicate observations?..

Answer / guest

nodup option in the merge statement

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