A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio

by Ron Cody

Point and click your way to performing statistics!

Many people are intimidated by learning statistics, but A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using SAS Studio is here to help. Whether you need to perform statistical analysis for a project or, perhaps, for a course in education, psychology, sociology, economics, or any other field that requires basic statistical skills, this book teaches the fundamentals of statistics, from designing your experiment through calculating logistic regressions. Serving as an introduction to many common statistical tests and principles, it explains concepts in a non-technical way with little math and very few formulas.
Once the basic statistical concepts are covered, the book then demonstrates how to use them with SAS Studio and SAS University Edition’s easy point-and-click interface.

Topics included in this book are:

How to install and use SAS University Edition
Descriptive statistics
One-sample tests
T tests (for independent or paired samples)
One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
N-way ANOVA
Correlation analysis
Simple and multiple linear regression
Binary logistic regression
Categorical data, including two-way tables and chi-square
Power and sample size calculations

Questions are provided to test your knowledge and practice your skills.

236 pages, Hardcover

Published September 27, 2019