Tag: Random Number

Random Number Seeds: NOT only the first one matters!

Today, Rick (blog @ here) wrote an article about random number seed in SAS to be used in random number functions in DATA Step. Rick noticed when multiple random number functions are called using different seeds, only the first one matters.

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Random Sample Selection

Last week my manager asked me to randomly pick 10%observations from a large data set and then create a listing so that the Data management programmers can QC the data. I want to share some thoughts here … how easy and simple to do random sampling. …