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Week 13/14: Proc me with a spoon-- Yet even more SAS procedures and syntax
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It's a SAS, SAS, SAS world-- using internet resources to solve those difficult SAS problems

Save example dataset richden.xls (in Excel 2000) to a disk or on your hard drive.  Create a library named "easy" and import the Excel file into SAS.

Oh-mi-gosh!  It's late night and you have to complete several analyses on the richness and density data in richden.xls by 7 am.  What do you do???

         A. Panic                C. Call your major professor
         B. Cry                    D. Use your brain and take advantage of SAS resources

The correct answer is D.  If you answered A and B, please seek professional help.  If you answered C, take the palm of your right hand and smack it against your forehead, doh!

Last week we explored some of the uses of the SAS manual.  There also are several other resources that are very helpful for answering some of your SAS questions.

Important Links:   online electronic manual   SAS home website   More SAS help

Lets assume that you have to complete the following tasks:
     Calculate the mean and standard deviation of: biomass
                                                                                  diversity by season and habitat

     Calculate the correlations among richness, diversity, density, and biomass

     Fit a linear regression of richness (dependent variable) vs. area (independent var.)

     Perform an analysis of variance (ANOVA) to look for differences in richness among
     habitats and statistically compare the habitat means (also called a multiple comparison
     tests)

Use the various SAS resources to help you complete the analysis.