CHAPTER 6
Basic Descriptive Statistics and Reporting in SAS
The first step in statistical data analysis is to define the business objectives, which determines the need of the project. This step will require some initial planning. Once the data is gathered in the required format, the next step is to explore the data.
A raw data set is all that is available at this stage. The next step is to get a basic understanding of the data. If the data set is too large, only the first few records can be printed. The business analyst must then visualize the data, highlight the outliers, identify the caveats, find interesting patterns in the data, or build ...
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