Statistical Analysis Systems

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Statistical Analysis Systems

• FAG5 Quality Control/Testing

• Qin Wang
• Lin He
• Liang Zhao

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SAS Overview

• What is SAS?
• Why we need SAS?
• Software 1 SAS v9.1.3
• Software 2 SPSS v14.0
• Recommendation

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What is Statistical Analysis Systems?

• Modular integrated application systems software
• Access, manage, analyze and present data
• From virtually any source

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What SAS can do for us?

• For petPRO
• - improve petPROs performance through
  analytics
• - making better, faster decisions

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What SAS can do for us? (contd)

• For QC/T
• - improve efficiency
• - easy to analyze database and files
• - get accurate results
• - low probability to make mistakes

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Two software

• VS

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Two software

• SAS a business intelligence software, such a
  powerful package, users write SAS programs to
  manipulate data and perform data analyses
• SPSS a predictive analytics software to
  anticipate change, and realize positive,
  measurable benefits

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SAS 9.1.3

• Advantages
• - powerful package
• - strong functions
• - very powerful for data management
• - mixed model and multivariate analysis

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SAS 9.1.3

• Disadvantages
• - high rental and training cost (60,000)
• - difficult to learn, can be frustrating at
  first
• - hard to find and correct mistakes

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SPSS v14.0

• Advantages
• - low installation and maintenance cost
  (25,000)
• - easy to use under friendly interface
• - easy to find and correct mistakes
• - high quality graphics output
• - strongly of analysis of variance

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SPSS v14.0

• Disadvantages
• - absence of the robust methods
• - weak in more cutting edge statistical
  procedure

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Recommendation SPSS v14.0
"real stats, real easy"
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Recommendation - Why SPSS?

• Focus on ease of use
• Need not hire new technicians for petPRO
• petPRO doesnt have too big database

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Recommendation - Why SPSS?

• Lower software and maintenance cost

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Pivot Table Comparison
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Any Questions?

• Thank you!