Questions about Comparing and Testing Two Groups in SAS (continued).
(written at Notre Dame to cover material in Chapter 7 of SAS System for Elementary Statistical Analysis)
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1. Which of the following statements is not true:
In SAS PROC CHART for a side-by-side chart you don't need to sort the data before producing the chart. You can list only one variable in the GROUP= option. Tests are set up and carried out as if the null hypothesis were true. Prob-Values are generated by SAS under the assumption that you are carrying out a two-sided test. Testing the difference between two means using paired observations requires using the t-test for two independent samples.
2. The three windows in SAS DMS are:
OUT, PGM and VIEW. LIST, OUT and PGM. SPF, PGM and OUT. ISPF, LIST and RUN. OUT, PGM and LOG.
3. Which of the following statements is not true:
PROC TTEST produces an exact two sample t-test when the population variances of the two groups are equal. PROC TTEST produces only an approximate two sample t-test when the sample sizes and population variances of the two groups differ. Your criterion for statistical significance will always depend on the results of the test. PROC TTEST requires the assumption that the observations for each group are a sample from a population with a normal distribution. The two-sample t-test provided by PROC TTEST should only be used for interval or ratio variables.
4. Which of the following statements is not true:
The Wilcoxon Signed Rank test requires two independent samples. In SAS PROC TTEST the CLASS statement is required. The Wilcoxon Rank Sum test is a nonparametric test for comparing two groups. The Wilcoxon Rank Sum test is sometimes referred to as the Mann-Whitney U test. In SAS PROC NPAR1WAY the CLASS statement is required.
5. To pull an existing data file from your disk space into SAS DMS you use the following command on the Program Editor command line:
SET INCLUDE INFILE INPUT FILE