topic Statistical model question? in Statistical Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Statistical-model-question/m-p/209180#M11332 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><TT>Given a dataset, only the first variable has been confirmed as an independent variable. There is no other info. How to build a model or run a regression?</TT></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:56:23 GMT Andygray 2015-03-24T16:56:23Z Statistical model question? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Statistical-model-question/m-p/209180#M11332 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><TT>Given a dataset, only the first variable has been confirmed as an independent variable. There is no other info. How to build a model or run a regression?</TT></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:56:23 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Statistical-model-question/m-p/209180#M11332 Andygray 2015-03-24T16:56:23Z Re: Statistical model question? https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Statistical-model-question/m-p/209181#M11333 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>SAS can easily get you information about what the variable names are, and which variables are character, and which are numeric.&nbsp; So you would at least have that much to work with.</P><P></P><P>Suppose you had that, and you had printed a few rows of data from the data set.&nbsp; How would you figure out what needed to be done, without any further help from computers?&nbsp; (If you can't figure it out, then there's no way to tell a computer how to figure it out.)&nbsp; How would you know what the dependent variable should be?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:57:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Statistical-Procedures/Statistical-model-question/m-p/209181#M11333 Astounding 2015-03-24T17:57:51Z