From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research
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Creating a continuous table shell - SAS Tutorial
From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research
Creating a continuous table shell
- [Instructor] Now we are ready to look at our continuous descriptive table one shell. This Excel file is in your exercise files and it's called Continuous_Desc Tbl_v1_Blank. Okay, let's look at what's in this table. We have the same independent variables, so we start the table with the same two columns as we had in our categorical table one. To me, the frequency and percentage are really helpful numbers to have when looking at measures of central tendency like means and measures of variation, like standard deviations. Because we know that small frequencies mean that you risk having a lot of variation and that can make confidence intervals, if you calculate them, really wide. So, it's nice to know the N and percent. Here, we've got our continuous outcome. I'm choosing to report mean and standard deviation. You can report it however you want. Usually each industry has its own conventions. I often see laboratory science papers provide the standard error instead of the standard…
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