From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research
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Reviewing confounders - SAS Tutorial
From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research
Reviewing confounders
- [Presenter] In your exercise files for this movie, you'll find the Excel file named SAS BRFSS data dictionary, which is what I will show you here. I'm doing this to give you a crash course in the variables you just saw in the keep statement in our data step in the last movie. As you may remember from the prerequisite courses, your data dictionary should document information about each variable in your analytic data set including the variable name, whether it is in the native dataset, or you generated it and also what each level means in categorical variables. Under source I put BRFSS if it was native, or SAS if I generated it. Under question slash description, I put the actual question from the survey or my description. And under values see tab, I've got the documentation of the levels. Here you will see I documented veteran three, which is our veteran variable, diabetes three, which is our exposure variable for diabetes, and SLEPTIM1 and asthma three, which are our outcome…
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