ANOVAinSAS-Biostatistics.pptVIP

ANOVA in SAS Mean Comparison With More Than Two Groups Introduction ANOVA (analysis of variance) tests are used to compare the means of multiple groups (as opposed to the t-test, which can only be used for up to two groups). An ANOVA tests Ho: all group means are equal vs. Ha: at least one group’s mean is different. The ANOVA results do not tell you which group is different, only whether a difference exists. ANOVA in SAS Open SAS and use the infile statement to input the data set relief.txt (this is also the first data set of the INFILE tutorial). If you don’t remember how to do this, here is some code that may help: data relief; infile C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\relief.txt; input group $ time; proc print data = relief; run; Once you print your data, notice that there are three groups: A, T, M. The data are from an experiment in which subjects were given Aspirin, Tylenol or Motrin for headaches. The time until relief was measured for each subject. The question of interest is: Does time to relief differ for any of the treatments, or are they all the same? In other words: Ho: μA = μT = μM vs. Ha: at least one group mean is different SAS Code for ANOVA To test our hypothesis, we use the following code in SAS: “class” tells SAS the classification variable. In general, this is going to be the effect that you are studying. In this case, the effect is “group.” “model” tells SAS the dependent variable. The general format is “model Y = X” where Y is the dependent variable, and X is the independent variable. In this case, time to relief is dependent on treatment group. Often a “quit” statement is necessary, because SAS may continue to run a procedure until either another one has been run, or SAS has been told to quit. Run the Program—Check Your Log If your Log is free of error messages, look at your output. The first page of your output says that there were three categories under the variable “Group”: A T M. It also tells you that there are 18 observat