1st Edition

SAS Programming for Elementary Statistics Getting Started

By Carla L. Goad Copyright 2021
398 Pages 134 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

398 Pages 134 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

398 Pages 134 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

SAS for Elementary Statistics: Getting Started provides an introduction to SAS programming for those who have experience with introductory statistical methods. It is also an excellent programming supplement for an introductory statistics course. It is appropriate for the beginning programmer with no prior SAS experience and the researcher who would like to refresh SAS programming skills. These... Read more

1. Introduction to SAS Programming Environment
2. DATA Step Information 1
3. Summarizing Data Basics
4. DATA Step Information – 2
5. Beginning Charts
6. One and Two Population Hypothesis Tests about the Means
7. One-way ANOVA Methods, Non-Parametric Methods and Ranking Data
8. Data Step Information 3 - Reading Data Files & Labeling Variables
9. Frequency Analysis
10. Summarizing a Data Table in a Formal Report
11. Regression and Correlation Analysis
12. SAS Libraries and Permanent SAS Data Sets
13. DATA Step Information 4 – SAS Probability Functions
14. Reading and Writing Data Files
15. DATA Step Information 5 - DO Loops, Arrays, and Random Number Generation
16. Statistical Graphics Procedures
17. SAS/GRAPH Procedures
18. Formatting Responses
19. Output Delivery System (ODS)
20. Miscellaneous Topics

Biography

Carla L. Goad is a Professor of Statistics at Oklahoma State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Kansas State University. SAS Programming has been an integral part of her work since the late 1980's. She has been teaching an introductory SAS programming course and SAS applications in graduate statistical methods courses since the mid 1990's. Her areas of expertise are experimental design and analysis and linear models. She is a statistical consultant for the Oklahoma Agriculture Experiment Station and has enjoyed working with agricultural researchers in animal and plant sciences. Through these collaborations she has coauthored many articles in agriculture research journals.