Purpose

This book provides you with virtually everything you need to know to enter data and to perform the statistical analyses that are most commonly used in research in the social sciences. A Step-by-Step Approach to Using SAS for Univariate and Multivariate Statistics, Second Edition shows you how to do the following:

• enter data;

• choose the correct statistic;

• perform the analysis;

• interpret the results;

• prepare tables, figures, and text that summarize the results according to the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (the most widely used format in the social science literature).