you can use PROC FREQ to achieve the same goal of ur research

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:42:50 -0500, Peter Flom
<peterflomconsulting@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:

>Christine Peloquin <christinepeloquin1@GMAIL.COM> wrote
>>
>>i just started a job at BU. i am running proc logistic on a dataset with
>>160,000 observations (80,000 cases and 80,000 controls) - and am receiving
>>an 'out of memory' message.  here is the code that i am running:
>>
>>proc logistic data=outf.tendon_short;
>> class exposure (ref='0') / param=ref;
>> strata subjid;
>> model case_flag (event='1') = exposure;
>>run;
>>
>>both the case_flag and exposure variables are dichotomous (numeric
>>variables; values: 0/1).  the subjid is a 11-char variable.
>>
>>would anyone have a suggestion of how i could resolve this or what i
should
>>be looking at to further debug?
>
>Perhaps take out the strata statement?
>
>This looks like you are trying to run a separate logistic regression on
each person
>
>HTH
>
>Peter
>
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