topic Re: P value and T value in SAS Programming

P value and T value

Joliek44 — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 04:57:25 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to get p value and t values for given data. Every time I try to run my data, keeps giving me ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, *, **, +, -, /, ;, <, <=, <>, =, >, ><, >=, AND, EQ, GE, GT, IN, LE, LT, MAX, MIN, NE, NG, NL,
NOTIN, OR, ^=, |, ||, ~=.

My SAS code is below. Any help would be appreciated.

data A1;
n = 12;
mu0 = 241;
xbar = 235;
sd = 12.5;
se = sd/sqrt(n);
df = n-1
tval = (xbar-mu0)/se;
pval = (1-cdf('T',abs(tval),df))*2;
run;
proc print data=A1;
run;

Re: P value and T value

ed_sas_member — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 07:15:33 GMT

Hi @Joliek44

it seems that you have a missing semi-colon at the end of the following statement:

df = n-1;

Best,

Re: P value and T value

Joliek44 — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:31:52 GMT

Hello,

Oh my gosh. Yes! That was it. Thank you. I can't believe i overlooked that.

Re: P value and T value

ballardw — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:38:38 GMT

And why we indicate that with error messages you should post the LOG of the whole proc or data step that included the error:

462  data A1;
463  n = 12;
464  mu0 = 241;
465  xbar = 235;
466  sd = 12.5;
467  se = sd/sqrt(n);
468  df = n-1
469  tval = (xbar-mu0)/se;
     ----
     22
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: !, !!, &, *, **, +, -, /, ;, <, <=,
              <>, =, >, ><, >=, AND, EQ, GE, GT, IN, LE, LT, MAX, MIN, NE, NG, NL, NOTIN, OR, ^=,
              |, ||, ~=.

470  pval = (1-cdf('T',abs(tval),df))*2;
471  run;

The underscores appearing under the first element of the line means indicates that the previous line is expected to be continued and what you have doesn't fit in the possible syntax. So look to the previous line.