Business Knowledge Series course

Presented by Mike Patetta, Analytical Training Consultant, Education Division, SAS

This course is designed for analysts, statisticians, modelers, and other professionals who have experience and knowledge in regression analysis and who want to learn available procedures in SAS/STAT software for robust regression. The two procedures addressed in the course are the ROBUSTREG procedure and the QUANTREG procedure.

This course includes practice data.

• use PROC ROBUSTREG to fit a regression model less sensitive to outliers
• use PROC QUANTREG to fit a quantile regression model.

Who should attend

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e-Learning:	3.5 hodin/180 den licence

Before attending this course, you should

• be familiar with DATA step programming.
• be familiar with basic SAS procedures for producing summary statistics and graphs, such as the MEANS and SGPLOT procedures. You can gain this experience by completing the SAS Programming 1: Essentials course.
• have basic knowledge of and experience with linear regression models (PROC REG). You can gain this experience by completing the Statistics 1: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression, and Logistic Regression course.

This course addresses SAS/STAT software.

• describing different estimation methods in robust parameter estimations
• illustrating robust diagnostics that identify outliers
• comparing estimation methods in PROC ROBUSTREG

• describing the quantile regression model
• explaining the results generated in PROC QUANTREG