I want to create a crosstabulation table between Region and season:
Spring | Summer | p-value | |
Region 1 | .. % | ..% | P1 |
Region 2 | .. % | .. % | P2 |
Region 3 | ..% | .. % | P3 |
I want to:
Check if the % of people in region 1 is different between spring and summer (p-value or OR)
Check if the % of people in region 2 is different between spring and summer (p-value or OR)
Check if the % of people in region 3 is different between spring and summer (p-value or OR)
What test should I use to get the 3 p-values needed?
As far as I remember, a simple comparison of proportions as you describe (which is not really a 2x2 contingency table at all) is not programmed into any SAS PROC. However, it is simple enough to program in data step.
As is usual, @Rick_SAS has written up the explanation at https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2017/07/05/test-equality-two-proportions-sas.html
It's not a 2X2 table, since it's literally a 1 (row=REGION) X 2 (column=SEASON) comparison.
One way would be to use a BY statement in the PROC FREQ.
Here's an example that gets the binomial test, which tests that the proportions should be 50% in each group. Note that you'll need the N's here, NOT the percentages. You need both the N and percentages or the raw data.
proc sort data=sashelp.class out=class; by age sex; run;
ods output binomialTest=pvalues;
proc freq data=class;
by age;
table sex / out=summary_table chisq binomial;
run;
PS. The reusults are not in a nice neat table, but all the information is in the two output tables:
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