Chapter 5: Descriptive Statistics – Univariate Analysis

Introduction

Generating Descriptive Statistics for Continuous Variables

Investigating the Distribution for Systolic Blood Pressure

Adding a Classification Variable in the Summary Statistics Tab

Describing Categorical Variables

Editing the SAS Code Generated by the One-Way Frequencies Statistics Task

Conclusions

Problems

Introduction

Before you begin any statistical test, you should spend some time "getting to know your data." This chapter describes ways to examine both continuous and categorical data using a variety of techniques, including descriptive statistical measures such as means and standard deviations as well as graphical techniques such as histograms and bar charts.

One of the ...

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