With Larry Hatcher's Step-by-Step Basic Statistics Using SAS: Exercises, you apply what you learned in the companion text, Step-by-Step Basic Statistics Using SAS: Student Guide. Using the instruction provided, you soon will be creating data sets and performing statistical analyses to investigate specific research questions. The exercise data is inspired by studies in the social and behavioral sciences, so your analyses and findings mirror real research. Each chapter presents two opportunities to explore the results of the analyses and to practice writing summary reports. For the first exercise, a complete solution is provided, including the SAS program, output, and analysis report, as well as tables and figures. For the second exercise, you supply the solution.
The Study and the Data Set to be Analyzed The initial DATA step for this exercise
should be identical to the initial DATA step used with Exercise 8.1, in which you
analyzed the data set that appeared in Table 8. El . 1 . If you completed that ...