Computing Details

Writing a book for software that is constantly changing is not straightforward. This second edition is targeted for Version 8 of the SAS System and takes advantage of many of the features of that release. The examples were executed with the 8.1 release on the HP UNIX platform, but most of the output can be reproduced using Version 8.0 with the following changes for Release 8.1:

  • PROC LOGISTIC adds exact logistic regression.

  • PROC GENMOD models, by default, the probability of the lowest ordered response variable levels. (The default has been changed from previous releases to make it consistent with other procedures.)

To make things a little more complicated, the authors used an output template for the LOGISTIC procedure that will ...

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