Consider a List Table in VA 7.4 Designer. It has only two fields (Month, Median Patients). The desire is to calculate the cumulative median over the months. This cumulative median is labelled as "Median Patients". An example data with more descriptive steps is attached.
Please, take look. Note: It's easy to calculate the monthly Median Patients by just using the median function in VA 7.4 Designer (not the desire). The cumulative median is desired.
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Sample Data
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Account ID Month #patients
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1 Jan2017 5
2 Jan2017 3
3 Feb2017 7
4 Feb2017 6
5 Feb2017 2
6 Mar2017 4
7 Apr2017 1
8 Apr2017 10
9 Apr2017 9
10 Apr2017 3
Typical calculation in SAS VA 7.4
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Monthly Median (Easy using median function)
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Month Median Patients
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Jan2017 4 ( 5+3 ) /2
Feb2017 6 middle of ( 2,6,7 )
Mar2017 4
Apr2017 6 middle of ( 1,3,9,10 ) = (3+9)/2 = 6
Cumulative Monthly Median (Desired in SAS VA 7.4) Any idea how to calculate this assuming this is in a List Table with only two fields (Month and Median Patients)?
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Month Median Patients
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Jan2017 4 ( 5+3 ) /2
Feb2017 5 middle of ( 2,3,5,6,7 ) = 5
Mar2017 5 middle of (2,3,4,5,6,7 ) = (4+5) /2 = 4.5(approx. 5 when rounded)
Apr2017 5 middle of(1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7,9,10) = (4+5) /2 = 4.5(approx. 5 when rounded)