About Statistical Graphs

After you have loaded your data into SAS/GRAPH Network Visualization Workshop, you can investigate the data with a variety of statistical graphs. A statistical graph is based on either link data or node data.
Statistical graphs serve two distinct roles in SAS/GRAPH Network Visualization Workshop:
  • The graphs enable exploratory data analysis on either the link or the node data. Distributional patterns or correlations in the data can often be detected using these graphs. For a summary of tasks that you can perform, see Non-Network Data .
  • The graphs can provide data filters for network data. Since all views (tables or graphs) of a data set are linked, observation selections in one graph are reflected in all graphs using that data set. Using the statistical graphs, you can selectively filter the observations displayed in the network graphs to uncover important relationships between nodes.
You can create the following types of statistical graphs: