SAS Studio 09 Hypothesis Testing For Proportions
SAS Studio 09 Hypothesis Testing For Proportions
(11/22/2024)
Sources
Steve Nolan, Ron Freeze, Elizabeth Keiffer, Michael Gibbs, Jorge Moreda
Enterprise Systems, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
SAS® Studio. Release 5.2
SAS® VIYA® release V.03.05
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Use Case – Hypothesis Testing for
Proportions
Razorback Stores is a local department store serving a metropolitan area. As a department store, they
offer a wide variety of items and services and track sales through a point of sale system. Over the past
several months, Razorback Stores performed a marketing campaign designed to promote and incentivize
a loyalty program.
As a recent hire, your boss has asked you to analyze the following:
Is the proportion of promotional customers less than 50%?
Step 1: Tasks
In order to access the One-Way Frequencies task within SAS Studio:
1. Click on the Tasks icon located on the left-panel
2. Expand the SAS Tasks folder
3. Expand the Statistics folder
4. Expand the Descriptive folder
5. Double click One-Way Frequencies
9. Click on RAZORBACK_STORES
10. Click OK
Step 5: Results
Once the task has executed, you will have your One-Way Frequency results view in the right most pane.
In order to better visualize the results, locate the three dots at the very right
end of the screen under the current date and time.
20. Click on these three dots and,
21. Click on Open in a browser tab
22. Click on Results
23. Alternatively, you can click on the Maximize preview icon
Under Results, notice that you have a folder labeled The Freq Procedure,
and two folders under it named Table Type of Customer, and Distribution
Plots, where you can find subfolders within.
24. Expand all the folders
25. Click on the files inside
You will notice that as you click on these files, the tables and plots on the
right window will change.
When clicking on any of these sections, SAS Studio will take you to the
table/graph to which that section references in the right.
Binomial Proportion:
One-Way Frequencies:
Frequency Plot
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Under the Results section, we can see the z value and p-value. From here, we can accept or reject our
null hypothesis.
Congratulations, you have successfully performed a Hypothesis Testing for Proportions on SAS Studio!