topic Re: Question about Cronbach's Alpha in New SAS User

Question about Cronbach's Alpha

michelle123 — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:24:26 GMT

Hello,

Can someone please help me find where I would locate/run Cronbach's Alpha in SAS - I am using the Academic on Demand version so no programming, all i can find is code about how to calculate it - not sure if there is a book anywhere on how to run analysis using SAS - completely new and any help apprecaited.

Re: Question about Cronbach's Alpha

mkeintz — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:10:10 GMT

A google search for "sas cronbach 9.4" yields a number of relevant links ,including:

PROC CORR Statement :: Base SAS(R) Procedures Guide ...

The "9.4" is to get the doc's for the latest version of SAS.

Re: Question about Cronbach's Alpha

michelle123 — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:07:17 GMT

Thank you, is there a way to do it without having to code anything? sorry
but totally new at this

Re: Question about Cronbach's Alpha

mkeintz — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:21:56 GMT

You certainly don't have to code the calculations needed for Cronbach's Alpha.

But you do have to:

Prepare a SAS dataset to be submitted to PROC CORR. Of course this is required prior to doing any statistical computation.
Tell SAS to run PROC CORR on your data, including the ALPHA option. For information on that take a look at the link I provided (PROC CORR Statement ... ). Go to the "Examples", tab and choose " Computing Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha" example. It's only about seven lines.

Re: Question about Cronbach's Alpha

michelle123 — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:49:17 GMT

ok, i will try - thank you so much really appreciate it.