Bivariate analyses

[stephanicurry]

Best way to do a bivariate analysis of one categorical variable (two categories) and one continuous?? One sample.

Looking to compare means, standard deviations, and p-values.

Would appreciate which proc procedure to use.

Thanks in advance!!

[PaigeMiller]

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@stephanicurry wrote:

Best way to do a bivariate analysis of one categorical variable and one continuous??

Looking to compare means, standard deviations, and p-values.

Comparing means sounds like Analysis of Variance, where you compare the mean of the continuous variable across the categories of the categorical variable. There are assumptions I am making. But I'd rather have you explain in a lot more detail what you want, instead of me  guessing what you want.

[stephanicurry]

The categorical variable only has two categories so I was thinking not ANOVA

[PaigeMiller]

What analysis were you thinking of?

[stephanicurry]

Maybe a one sample t-test? Not 100% sure

[PaigeMiller]

Here's a t-test example using PROC TTEST:

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&docsetId=statug&docsetTarget=statu...

[stephanicurry]

Thank you!

Can I use ANOVA with only two categories? and if I do, would I use proc glm?

[PaigeMiller]

ANOVA with two categories should give the exact same answer as a t-test. You can use PROC GLM.

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

T test PROC TTEST
or Non-parameter version of t-test
Wilconx test by PROC N1PARAM .

[Reeza]

You need a hypothesis first usually.

Here's examples of common statistical analysis options:
https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/whatstat/what-statistical-analysis-should-i-usestatistical-analyses-...

[stephanicurry]

Thank you!