Correlation in SAS

Pinky9 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:33:45 GMT

Could someone explain correlation in SAS with example and syntax.

Thanks

Re: Correlation in SAS

AncaTilea — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:30:33 GMT

Using the SASHELP.CLASS data set, say you wonder if height and weight are correlated. One could expect that.

PROC CORR DATA = SASHELP.CLASS;

VAR WEIGHT HEIGHT;

RUN;

Then you get an output like this:

Pearson Correlation Coefficients, N = 19

Prob > |r| under H0: Rho=0

Weight Height

Weight 1.00000 0.87779

<.0001

Height 0.87779 1.00000

<.0001

That at the very least it's telling you that the (pearson) correlation is 0.88.

There is also plenty of documentation here:

Best of luck.