This book is organized as follows.
Chapter 2, this chapter, provides an overview of SAS/STAT software and summarizes related information, products, and services. The remaining introductory chapters (Chapter 3, Introduction to Statistical Modeling with SAS/STAT Software, through Chapter 18, Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling with Latent Variables) provide an introduction to the broad areas covered by SAS/STAT software.
Chapter 19, Introduction to Power and Sample Size Analysis, provides documentation for the Power and Sample Size Application (PSS).
Chapter 20, Shared Concepts and Topics, provides information about topics that are common to multiple procedures. Topics include parameterization of model effects, the EFFECT statement, and the NLOPTIONS statement. This chapter also documents the following statements that are used for postfitting analysis and are common across many modeling procedures: EFFECTPLOT, ESTIMATE, LSMEANS, LSMESTIMATE, SLICE, STORE, and TEST.
Chapter 21, Shared Concepts in High-Performance Computing, describes common concepts that are used by SAS/STAT high-performance procedures.
Chapter 22, Shared Concepts and Topics in High-Performance Statistical Procedures, describes common syntax elements that are supported by SAS/STAT high-performance procedures.
Chapter 23, Using the Output Delivery System, explains the fundamentals of using the Output Delivery System (ODS) to manage your SAS output.
Chapter 24, Statistical Graphics Using ODS, Chapter 25, ODS Graphics Template Modification, and Chapter 26, Customizing the Kaplan-Meier Survival Plot, describe the extension to ODS that enables many statistical procedures to create statistical graphics as easily as they create tables.
Subsequent chapters describe the SAS procedures that make up SAS/STAT software. These chapters appear in alphabetical order by procedure name and are organized as follows:
The "Overview" section provides a brief description of the analysis provided by the procedure.
The "Getting Started" section provides a quick introduction to the procedure through a simple example.
The "Syntax" section describes the SAS statements and options that control the procedure.
The "Details" section discusses methodology and miscellaneous details, such as ODS tables and ODS graphics.
The "Examples" section contains examples that use the procedure.
The "References" section contains references for the methodology and for examples of the procedure.
Following the chapters on the SAS/STAT procedures, Appendix A, Special SAS Data Sets, documents the special SAS data sets that are associated with SAS/STAT procedures and Appendix B, Sashelp Data Sets, documents Sashelp data sets that are used in this book.