Audience

This text is designed for students and researchers whose background in statistics might be limited. An introductory chapter reviews basic concepts in statistics and research methods. The chapters on data entry and statistical analyses assume that the reader has little or no familiarity with SAS; all programming concepts are conveyed at an introductory level. The chapters that deal with specific statistics clearly describe the circumstances under which the use of each is appropriate. Finally, each chapter provides at least one detailed example of how the researcher should enter data, prepare the SAS program, and interpret the results for a representative research problem. Even users whose only exposure to data analysis was an elementary statistics course taken years previously should be able to use this guide to successfully perform statistical analyses.