Strategic Analytics and SAS

Aggregation and Further Analysis

So far in this example, we’ve found some models that include both structured and unstructured data that are strongly associated with the response variable. In this section we’re going to look at the analysis to answer the high-level questions more succinctly. At the beginning of this chapter, I listed five questions that the director of the CDC and chief of staff of the FDA wanted the answer to.

There are a few things that we need to keep in mind when we approach analytics of this type. First, this data is what we call happenstance data. Data is collected and observed over time by many different medical staff with different samples and medical facilities and with many different patients with many different ...