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ihtishamsultan
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello, I have a binary/categorical variable - Location. I would like to see if there is a statistical difference between the presence of complaints between the two locations. 

 

For complaints I have the following values-

"." missing values denotes no complaint in the dataset.

1 denotes the presence of complaint

 

I was tilting towards using proc freq to do a chi-square test but wasn't sure. Can anyone please guide.

 

Here is the sample data.

 

data test;
infile datalines;
input customernum complaint location$;
datalines;

100   1  ND
200   .  D
300   1  D
400   1  D
500   .  ND
600   1  ND
700   1  D
800   1  D
900   .  ND
1000  1  ND
1100  1  D
1200  1  D
1300  1  D
;
RUN;

 

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ballardw
Super User

Proc Freq and Chi-sq would be one of my first choices. With the data you show you would need to include the MISSING option on the tables statement so that missing is treated as a category for the Complaint variable.

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ballardw
Super User

Proc Freq and Chi-sq would be one of my first choices. With the data you show you would need to include the MISSING option on the tables statement so that missing is treated as a category for the Complaint variable.

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