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Challenge: Delete rows

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Challenge: Delete rows

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] In this challenge, we're going to practice a strategy for deleting rows from a dataset in SAS. This time, instead of BRFSS, we are going to use the NHANES dataset. Please see the handout with this challenge for more details about this dataset. NHANES stands for National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and the key word in that title is examination. NHANES is like BRFSS in that it includes a lot of the same questions from questionnaires in the BRFSS. But here's where NHANES is different in an important way. It includes data from in-person examinations, which is why the E in NHANES stands for examination. Because they have to measure everyone in person in NHANES, it's a much smaller dataset than BRFSS, which is done on the phone. Another difference with NHANES is that the datasets are split up depending upon the questionnaire or examination. This is different from the core BRFSS dataset, which is just one big table. For this challenge, we are going…

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