A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SASⓇ Studio

Chapter 14: Analyzing Categorical Data

Introduction

Describing the Salary Data Set

Computing One-Way Frequencies

Creating Formats

Producing One-Way Tables with Formats

Reviewing Relative Risk, Odds Ratios, and Study Designs

Creating Two-Way Tables

Using Formats to Reorder the Rows and Columns of a Table

Computing Chi-Square from Frequency Data

Analyzing Tables with Low Expected Values

Conclusion

Chapter 14 Exercises

Introduction

One of the data analysis tasks that you will be using quite often is to compute frequencies on categorical data and to analyze two-way frequency tables (tables with frequencies of one variable making up rows of the table and frequencies of another variable making up columns of the table). You might want to see survey ...