Strategic Analytics and SAS

Defining Strategic Outcomes

Now our model is complete. Let’s use the results to answer our questions. First, we want to know whether the symptoms that were recorded have any particular linkage or association to the life-threatening condition. The answer is obviously yes. But when we look at Figure 4.17 Type3 Analysis Effects, we see quite a number of the text topics that are statistically significant and therefore were retained in the model with less than or equal to a p-value of 0.03. We could rank them according to their chi-square value, and that would tell us which of the topics were statistically more significant than the others. However, it would not tell us about the strength of the association. Now, the table in Figure 4.21 Odds Ratios ...