Fundamental Business Statistics for SAS

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Objectives

After the course, attendees will be able to apply various statistical methods for both continuous and discrete data, to interpret the output from SAS procedures and to store information via the output delivery system for subsequent reporting

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Topics

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Introduction

• Course Objectives

• Types of Data

• Hypotheses Testing

• SAS Procedures

• Workshop Session

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Exploring Continuous Data

• Summarising Continuous Data

• Outputting Data

• Normal Distribution

• Summarising Non-Normal Data

• Summarising Variability

• Exploring Data Graphically

• Workshop Session

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Comparing Two Groups of Data

• Box-and-Whisker Plots

• Student’s t-Test

• Non-Parametric Hypothesis Tests

• Workshop Session

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Exploring Discrete Data

• Frequency Distribution tables

• Saving Output

• Workshop Session

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Selecting Samples of Data

• Sampling Overview

• Sampling with and without Replacement

• Systematic Random Sampling

• Stratified Random Sampling

• Sequential Random Sampling

• Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) Sampling

• Workshop Session