topic Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me in SAS Programming

How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Vani1493 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 04:06:43 GMT

I am very much confused how to differentiate variable is skewed or not....continuous or catagorical by seeing the skewness values.

please clear my confusion.

thank you

Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Ksharp — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:13:29 GMT

@Rick_SAS wrote many blogs about this statistics.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2020/10/28/sample-skewness-is-biased.html

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/01/28/skewness-and-kurtosis.html

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2020/11/09/robust-skewness-kurtosis.html

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2022/10/03/moments-distributions-sas.html

Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Vani1493 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:22:43 GMT

Thank you....one more query please

please let me know why i am getting this error variable race should be either numeric or specified in the class statement when i am trying to create graphs

Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Ksharp — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:33:19 GMT

You shoud put RACE in CLASS statement ,like this :

proc logistic data=...........
CLASS RACE ;
model y= RACE .........;
run;

Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Vani1493 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:46:05 GMT

i tried, it wont work out...

my code is

pls help me...in preparing graph with outcome_1 with Race

Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Rick_SAS — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:07:14 GMT

BEFORE the MODEL statement, put

class Race;

Re: How to know variable is skewed or not skewed by seeing the skewness value, please help me

Vani1493 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 03:43:26 GMT

thank you.. worked.🙂