From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research
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Choosing an analytic approach - SAS Tutorial
From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research
Choosing an analytic approach
- [Instructor] Now that we are ready to start our descriptive analysis, we need to make some choices in our analytic approach. Basically, we have two sets of decisions we will make and I'll walk you through them. First, we have to choose the specific format of the table. And second, we need to choose how we will employ the statistical software we are using to actually generate the table we want to include in our report. Let's start with deciding on the format. Remember from the pre-requisite courses, we are essentially making Table 1. So we'll list independent variables on the rows, dependent variable levels in the columns, and at the intersections, we'll display calculations we make in SAS. This means we have to decide how we want to format our list of category levels on the rows. We also have to make hair-splitting decisions about what columns we actually want to have about the dependent variable. Like, if you think of a binary dependent variable, do we have an All column? Or just…
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