I wanted to Proc means to calculate
weighted statistics but the options seem too involved.
In the specific example, you have hundred days that are
zero and the remaining days have positive values where
some of the zeros are not coded as zeros but simply the
date is omitted. What is the average daily value?
If you computed an unweighted simple average, it will
be misleading. It will overstate the mean since it will
not weight the zeros. So the observed average needs to
be multiplied by a proportion of number of non-zero days
over total number of days. However the variance cannot
be easily adjusted.
So in SAS, I created a row of zero and weighted it with
365-number of non zero rows. I created a weight of 1 for
every non-zero row. If you use proc means and apply weighting
option you are done. The mean is easy......... but the
variance needs more work. You need to specify a variance
deflator option to indicate you really want to use the
total of weights to arrive at the variance.
This option is VARDEF=WEIGHT. See the example
weighted mean and variances using VARDEF option