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Data
: Allows you to deal with the data file; among other things, you
can select options to
sort
(reorder) the cases,
Transpose
the rows
and columns, and
standardize
the data.
Describe
:Allowsyouto
List Data
(e.g., identify each case by vari-
ables that you designate), acquire
Summary Statistics
, and produce
a
Frequency
table on a specified variable.
Graph
: Contains a variety of preformatted ways to plot your data.
Analyze
: Contains the statistical procedures you use to analyze your
data.
Add-In
:Getsyoutothe
Add-InManager
, which allows you to add,
remove, and update commonly used procedures, such as
Standard-
ize Data
and
Summary Statistics
.
OLAP
: This acronym stands for online analytical processing.
According to the SAS website, the OLAP Server is a multidimen-
sional data store designed to provide quick access to presummarized
data generated from vast amounts of detailed data.
Tools
: Allows you to access sample data files through
SASEnterprise
Guide Explorer
, place your project in a particular library through
Assign Library
, and produce your statistical output in HTML, PDF,
RTF,andsoonformatthrough
Options
.
Window
: Allows you to reach particular screens.
Help
:
Contains
documentation
explaining
how
to
work
with
SAS.
B.9 PERFORMING STATISTICAL PROCEDURES
IN
SAS ENTERPRISE GUIDE
We will use the data file displayed in Figure B14 to illustrate the process of
performing statistical analyses in
SAS Enterprise Guide
. We use a one-way
ANOVA procedure to illustrate how to work with
SAS Enterprise Guide
windows.
From the main menu, select
Analyze
➜
ANOVA
➜
One-Way
.This
brings us to the main dialog window for the procedure as shown in
Figure B15. The navigation panel at the very left of the window will
appear in every statistical analysis and allows us to reach different parts of
the specifications for the analysis. We typically begin our navigation in the
TaskRoles
portion of the procedure. It is here that we select those variables
in our data file that will be assigned particular roles in the analysis we have
invoked. In this one-way ANOVA procedure, for example, we must specify
the dependent and independent variables in the analysis.
B.9.1 THE VARIABLES TO ASSIGN PANEL
The
Variables to assign
panel (next to the navigation panel) in Fig-
ure B15 lists the variables in the project data file in the order that they
