Date:         Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:10:57 -0800
Reply-To:     "Dennis G. Fisher" <dfisher@CSULB.EDU>
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From:         "Dennis G. Fisher" <dfisher@CSULB.EDU>
Subject:      lab data???
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I have a question for people who work with data from lab tests.  Some of
the data I am working with is reported as >50000 or >850000 for
examples.  These are values that exceeded the ability of the lab to
obtain exact values.  I cannot put < or > as numerical values for
analysis purposes as SAS will interpret them as character values.  I am
leaning toward just deleting those values (converting them to . or
missing).  Is this the right way to do this???? If not, why not and what
should I do instead????
TIA

Dennis Fisher

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