Date:         Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:25:19 -0600
Reply-To:     "Dunn, Toby" <Toby.Dunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Dunn, Toby" <Toby.Dunn@TEA.STATE.TX.US>
Subject:      Re: Random selection
Comments: To: Myra <myrabarnes@YAHOO.COM>
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Myra,
I am no statician and never have claimed to be, so I will leave how to
get and how random a sample is to others.

But feel free to go here:
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=sas-l

And run a search for "random sample", you will be surprised at the large
amount of info you will find in our little archive.

HTH
Toby Dunn

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Myra
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:17 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Random selection


I have a dataset of about 2800 observations & I need to randomly select
150 of them & output them into a new dataset. How would I go about doing
this?

Thanks for any help.

~Myra~



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