Business Statistics Made Easy in SAS

Other Statistical Forms

Linear regression is certainly not the only form of statistical analysis available. Essentially, some form of statistical analysis exists to assess the links between any variables, no matter what they might be. For example:

• Whereas linear regression of the form discussed so far generally requires dependent variables that are continuous (interval or ratio in data), other forms of regression can analyze dependent variables that are ordinal or categorical (e.g. where you wish to analyze actual employee turnover, which is a binary variable having the values 0=stayed at the organization and 1=left the organization).
• In a similar vein, categorical independent and dependent variables can be related together.