https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/New-User-Continuous-Outcome-and-Categorical-Predictor/m-p/359099#M274465 <P>PROC GLM is the easiest way to go.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You will get the same answer from PROC REG, but you'd have to create the dummy variables properly before running PROC REG, so best to avoid this.</P> Tue, 16 May 2017 15:46:49 GMT PaigeMiller 2017-05-16T15:46:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/New-User-Continuous-Outcome-and-Categorical-Predictor/m-p/359097#M274464 <P>I have an outcome of sales in dollars, with a predictor of Income category. &nbsp;Household income is an ordinal variable. &nbsp;Should I use PROC &nbsp;GLM with a class statement or can I just use a PROC reg?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks,&nbsp;<BR />JD</P> Tue, 16 May 2017 15:41:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/New-User-Continuous-Outcome-and-Categorical-Predictor/m-p/359097#M274464 JimmyDanger 2017-05-16T15:41:54Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/New-User-Continuous-Outcome-and-Categorical-Predictor/m-p/359099#M274465 <P>PROC GLM is the easiest way to go.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You will get the same answer from PROC REG, but you'd have to create the dummy variables properly before running PROC REG, so best to avoid this.</P> Tue, 16 May 2017 15:46:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/New-User-Continuous-Outcome-and-Categorical-Predictor/m-p/359099#M274465 PaigeMiller 2017-05-16T15:46:49Z