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stephanicurry
Obsidian | Level 7

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!!

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

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@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.

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Paige Miller
stephanicurry
Obsidian | Level 7
The categorical variable only has two categories so I was thinking not ANOVA
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

What analysis were you thinking of?

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Paige Miller
stephanicurry
Obsidian | Level 7
Maybe a one sample t-test? Not 100% sure
stephanicurry
Obsidian | Level 7
Thank you!

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

PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

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

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Paige Miller
Ksharp
Super User
T test PROC TTEST
or Non-parameter version of t-test
Wilconx test by PROC N1PARAM .
Reeza
Super User
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
Obsidian | Level 7
Thank you!

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