Basic Statistics Using SAS Enterprise Guide:: A Primer - Softcover

Der, Geoff; Everitt, Brian S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599945738 ISBN 13: 9781599945736

Publisher: SAS Institute, 2007

Synopsis

Now it's easy to perform many of the most common statistical techniques when you use the SAS Enterprise Guide point-and-click interface to access the power of SAS. Emphasizing the practical aspects of the analysis, Geoff Der and Brian S. Everitt's Basic Statistics Using SAS Enterprise Guide: A Primer shows you how to conduct a wide range of statistical analyses without any SAS programming required. One or more real data sets, a brief introduction of the technique, and a clear explanation of the SAS Enterprise Guide output are provided for each analysis. Exercises at the end of each chapter help you consolidate what has been learned. Topics include: Analysis of variance Dealing with categorical data Logistic regression Regression Significance tests Survival analysis And more! This text is ideal for those who want to use SAS to analyze their data, but do not have the time to undertake the considerable amount of learning involved in the programming approach.

About this title

About the Author

Geoff Der

Geoff Der is a consulting statistician for the Medical Research Council in Glasgow, Scotland, where he advises research staff on study design and statistical analysis. A SAS user since 1981, Geoff specializes in Base SAS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, the SAS Macro facility, ODS, and SAS Enterprise Guide.

Brian S. Everitt

Brian S. Everitt is retired as Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, and is now Professor Emeritus at King's College.

Review

"This guide is an excellent introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide for users new to Enterprise Guide, new to statistics, or both. A user stepping through all the examples in this book would end up being exposed to many different types of data and a variety of commonly-used statistical techniques, from t-tests and Fisher's Exact Test to logistic regression and survival analysis. Throughout, the emphasis is on good statistical practices - looking at the data, thinking about what questions to ask about the data, and then using statistical methods to address those questions. The examples provide excellent illustrations of how to use Enterprise Guide to accomplish these tasks at just the right level of detail, and it is obvious from the context how to extend the examples to more complex situations. This book is recommended for anyone who wants to learn the basics of SAS Enterprise Guide for statistical analysis." --David J. Pasta, Vice President, Statistics & Data Operations, ICON Clinical Research

"Basic Statistics Using SAS Enterprise Guide: A Primer by Geoff Der and Brian S. Everitt truly is a primer, teaching by example starting with an introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide and showing progressively more complex examples. This book will aid SAS users at every experience level from students using SAS Learning Edition through experienced users applying their skills to corporate applications with SAS Enterprise Guide." --William E. Benjamin, Jr., Owl Computer Consultancy, LLC

"This book is an excellent next step for someone who is familiar with using SAS Enterprise Guide and who wants to learn to run statistical procedures and interpret the results." --Karol Katz, M.S., Programmer Analyst, Yale University School of Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: SAS Institute
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1599945738
• ISBN 13: 9781599945736
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 244