Data analysis with SAS. Statistical methods and graphical aspects.

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Authors Walter Krämer, Olaf Schoffer, Lars Tschiersch

Publication date 15 October 2004

data analysis descriptive statistics graphical methods inferential statistics SAS

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04) Graphical methods in statistics (62A09)

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This book provides an introduction to SAS and shows how various standard and advanced data analyses can be performed using SAS. The book presents hardly any of the theory behind the methods discussed. Thus, it is oriented towards researchers and practitioners who are familiar with the methods and would like to know how to fit them using SAS. It would also be suitable as an accompanying book for a statistics course that uses SAS as its statistical computing environment. The book is split into five parts, an appendix, a bibliography and a subject index. The first part (Einführung in die Benutzung von SAS) contains an introduction to SAS. In this part the authors discuss the basic use of SAS, its help system, the DATA command and the PROC command. The second part (Präsentation und Aufbereitung von Ergebnissen) discusses how results from an analysis, whether they are in text form or graphics, can be presented. The procedures TABULATE and REPORT are discussed as well as the Output-Delivery-System and the graphical capabilities of SAS (two and three dimensional plots, cartograms etc). The following two parts discuss various statistical procedures. The first of these parts (Grundlagen der Statistik) discusses standard procedures in descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, box-plots, QQ-plots etc), inferential statistics (point estimation, interval estimation and significance testing) and regression analysis (simple linear regression). The fourth part (Spezialgebiete und Anwendungen) discusses more advanced statistical analysis and how they are performed using SAS. The topics discussed in this part include analysis of variance, design of experiments, nonparametric methods, multivariate methods, time series analysis and econometrics. The fifth part (Besonderheiten von SAS) concentrates again on the program SAS itself. In this part the authors discuss the interactive matrix language and how to program macros in SAS. They also devote a short six-pages chapter (Assistenten) to various components of the SAS system (Insight, Enterprise Miner, ASSIST, Analyst and Full Screen Processing [FSP]). Each of the chapters in parts three and four concludes with some exercises and appendix~A contains solution hints for these exercises. Appendix~B contains an SAS program to simulate the critical values for the Durbin-Watson test and appendix~C (Formate und Informate) gives a compact summary of formats used to input and output data in SAS.

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