STAT 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Summary Statistics
8 Aug 2018
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The variables are very useful in analysing the data. They are used in expressions in which the statistical analysis is applied. Let"s see an example of analysing the built-in. Data set named cars which is present under libraries -> my libraries -> sashelp. Double click on it to explore the variables and their data types. Next we can produce a summary statistics of some of these variables using the tasks options in sas studio. Go to tasks -> statistics -> summary statistics and double click it to open the window as shown below. Choose data set sashelp. cars and select the three variables - mpg_city, mpg_highway and weight under the analysis. Hold the ctrl key while selecting the variables by clicking. Click on the results tab after the above steps. It shows the statistical summary of the three variables chosen. The last column indicates number of observations (records) used in the analysis.
