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_maldini_
Barite | Level 11

I want to test the equality of 2 proportions, but I want to do it for each level of a nominal, polychotomous variable. For example, gender (dichotomous) and race (polychotomous). I want to compare the proportion of males that are caucasian, for example, to the proportion of females that are caucasian, and so on. I want the same comparison for each level of the polychotomous variable race. If there are 5 levels of race, I want 5 comparisons w/ p-values, difference in proportion and CI of the difference.

 

I understand that if the 2 variables are dichotomous I can use PROC FREQ w/ the CHISQ and RISKDIFF options for the statistical significance, the difference between proportions and the CI for that difference, but is there a way to perform this analysis without having to dichotomize a polychotomous variable?

 

Thanks!!

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Reeza
Super User

Your BY variables shouldn't be in the TABLES statement 

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Reeza
Super User

Include the polychotomous variable as a BY variable. 

 

_maldini_
Barite | Level 11

@Reeza

 

When I do that I get the following NOTES in the log: 

 

NOTE: No statistics are computed for race_ethn * gender because all data are missing.
NOTE: The above message was for the following BY group:
race_ethn=.
NOTE: No statistics are computed for race_ethn * gender because race_ethn has less than 2 nonmissing levels.
NOTE: The above message was for the following BY group:
race_ethn=Caucasian
NOTE: No statistics are computed for race_ethn * gender because race_ethn has less than 2 nonmissing levels.
NOTE: The above message was for the following BY group:
race_ethn=Black/African American/Hispanic
NOTE: No statistics are computed for race_ethn * gender because race_ethn has less than 2 nonmissing levels.
NOTE: The above message was for the following BY group:
race_ethn=Native American/Asian/Pacific Islander
NOTE: No statistics are computed for race_ethn * gender because race_ethn has less than 2 nonmissing levels.
NOTE: The above message was for the following BY group:
race_ethn=Other
NOTE: There were 2774 observations read from the data set SURVEY.CSCSP_2016_POST_SORT.

Reeza
Super User

Your BY variables shouldn't be in the TABLES statement 

Ksharp
Super User
Possion regression might do this.
proc genmod + offset= option


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