A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio in the Cloud

Point and click your way to performing statistics with SAS OnDemand for Academics!

Many people are intimidated by learning statistics, but A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio in the Cloud is here to help. Whether you need to perform statistical analysis for a project or, perhaps, for a course in education, psychology, sociology, economics, or any other field that requires basic statistical skills, this book teaches the fundamentals of statistics, from designing your experiment through calculating logistic regressions. Serving as an introduction to many common statistical tests and principles, it explains concepts in an intuitive way with little math and very few formulas.

The book is full of examples demonstrating the use of SAS Studio’s easy point-and-click interface accessed with SAS OnDemand for Academics (ODA), an online delivery platform for teaching and learning statistical analysis that provides free access to SAS software via the cloud.

Topics included in this book are:

• How to access SAS ODA
• Descriptive statistics
• One-sample tests
• T tests (for independent or paired samples)
• One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
• N-way ANOVA
• Correlation analysis
• Simple and multiple linear regression
• Binary logistic regression
• Categorical data, including two-way tables and chi-square
• Power and sample size calculations

Questions are provided to test your knowledge and practice your skills.

Ron Cody, EdD, is a retired professor from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who now works as a private consultant and national instructor for SAS. A SAS user since 1977, Ron's extensive knowledge and innovative style have made him a popular presenter at local, regional, and national SAS conferences. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, such as Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide, Second Edition; A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio; Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Third Edition; SAS Functions by Example, Second Edition; and several other books on SAS programming and statistical analysis. During his career at Rutgers Medical School, he authored or co-authored over 100 articles in scientific journals.