What’s New in the Base SAS Statistical Procedures

Overview

There are several enhancements to the Base SAS procedures for SAS 9.3. The behavior of the FREQ procedure has changed from SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.3.

Enhancements

CORR Procedure

The POLYSERIAL option has been added to the PROC CORR statement. The POLYSERIAL option requests a table of polyserial correlation coefficients. Polyserial correlation measures the correlation between two continuous variables with a bivariate normal distribution, where only one variable is observed directly. Information about the unobserved variable is obtained through an observed ordinal variable that is derived from the unobserved variable by classifying its values into a finite set of discrete, ordered values. ...

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