Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:05:46 -0800
Reply-To: Hugh Roghmann <hugh_r@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Hugh Roghmann <hugh_r@COMCAST.NET>
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Subject: Re: How can I get scatter matrix plot in SAS?
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Hi,
There is also a scatterplot matrix macro
%macro scattmat(data,vars);
found at the bottom of:
http://ftp.sas.com/samples/A58679
It is sample code from this book:
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SAS, */
/* Second Edition */
/* by Geoff Der and Brian Everitt */
/* Copyright(c) 2001 by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press */
/* ISBN 1-58488-245-X */
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Provided with permission from Chapman & Hall / CRC Press */
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Hugh
polaris@onebox.com (cchabot) wrote in message news:<e6f6f810.0401081529.725ebfdf@posting.google.com>...
> If you use data visualization a lot, you might want to try a free
> trial of www.tableausoftware.com. We make a product called a Visual
> Spreadsheet that is designed to do exactly this type of analysis.
>
> Christian Chabot
>
> Nathaniel_Wooding@DOM.COM (Nat Wooding) wrote in message news:<OF7A55D09C.A0FDAA6B-ON85256DFA.0045383D-85256DFA.004691E8@va.dominionnet.com>...
> > I think that you are being mislead by the documentation. The Scatter
> > statement, as far as I know, is used for a 3-d scatter plot rather than the
> > Biplot that you want.
> >
> > Several years ago, someone gave a paper at SUGI describing how to do
> > scatter matrix plots using Proc Gplot and then GREPLAY to display the plots
> > in the matrix. However, since then, these plots have been offered in
> > SAS/Insight. Since you appear to be at a university, please check to see if
> > you have SAS/Insight available. If so, the steps (in Windows) are
> >
> > click on Tools
> > then Solutions
> > then Interactive Data Analysis
> > then you select the SAS data set which you with to investigate.
> >
> > You will be presented with a spread-sheet-like display of the variables in
> > the data set. You highlight the variable names that you wish to plot and
> > then click on Analyze. You will be offered several display choices; choose
> > Scatter Plot. You will be presented with the scatter plot matrix. If you
> > click on a point in one box, the point will be highlighted in all of the
> > other boxes; moreover, you should have a button at the bottom with the name
> > of the data set. If you click on the button, you will see the data set and
> > you will be able to pick out the observation that you have just
> > highlighted. There are a number of other options available for exploring
> > the data set but I'm not going to try to list them all.
> >
> > The bottom line: yes, it is possible to do this on your own but Insight is
> > the preferred tool in my book. If you don't have access to Insight, I could
> > try to find the old SUGI paper.
> >
> > Nat Wooding
> >
> >
> >
> > ±θΏ΅ΓΆ
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> >
> > 12/11/03 08:31 PM
> > Please respond to
> > ±θΏ΅ΓΆ
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I want to draw the scatter matrix plot( Biplot) to see the relation of
> > many variables.
> > In SAS help page, the syntax is suggested,
> >
> > Scatter x1-x10 * y1-y10;
> >
> > but i don't know which procedure can use above syntax.
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