Essential Statistics Using SAS University Edition

Chapter 3:  Categorical Data

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Graphing and Analysing Frequencies: Horse Race Winners

3.2.1 Looking at Horse Race Winners Using Some Simple Graphics: Bar Charts and Pie Charts

3.2.2 Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test: Does Starting Stall Position Predict Horse Race Winners?

3.3 Two-By-Two Tables

3.3.1 Chi-Square Test: Breast Self-Examination

3.3.2 Odds and Odds Ratios

3.3.3 The Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Test for Multiple Related 2 X 2 Tables

3.4 Larger Cross-Tabulations

3.4.1 Tabulating the Brain Tumour Data Into a Contingency Table

3.4.2 Do Different Types Of Brain Tumours Occur More Frequently at Particular Sites? Chi-Squared Test

3.5 Fisher’s Exact Test

3.5.1 How Is Baiting Behaviour at Suicides Affected by Season? Fisher’s Exact ...