Chapter 5. Summarizing Your Data

Introduction

This chapter provides a brief introduction to the SAS procedures listed in Table 5-1, which can be used to summarize and report on the records in a data set. One of the most important objectives in the analysis of quality and reliability data is the detection of significant differences among subgroups of the total population of units. For example, you might need to know whether the units received from a particular vendor, or manufactured during a particular time period, are significantly worse than other ...

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