Overview of the Three Big Tasks in Business Statistics
Having been introduced to the SAS products in the previous
chapter, we now turn our attention to a basic introduction to the
three major types of tasks you may wish to perform in SAS:
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Data manipulation tasks are those where you wish to change or add to your current data set. For instance, you may wish to sort your current dataset by some variable, or add a new column of data that is the sum of three other columns. Appendix A to this chapter gives you some lessons on how to do such tasks, including manipulating data and creating new datasets.
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Data analysis involves generating representative numbers or pictures of the data that tell you something you wish to know about the data. ...
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