The DO Loop
Statistical programming in SAS with an emphasis on SAS/IML programs
A recent article discussed Pareto charts and how to create them in SAS. A Pareto chart is used in quality control to identify the most likely reasons that a manufacturing process produces defective items. Suppose there are k different reasons why a process can fail, and you intend to randomly
When you have a data matrix, the rows represent observations and the columns represent variables. If you sort the matrix by one or more columns, the sorting occurs in a way that preserves the elements within rows. Although the rows of the sorted matrix are permuted by the sort, the
A Pareto chart is a popular chart for statistical quality control. It is often used to display the relative frequencies of issues that affect the quality of a manufacturing process. A bar chart displays the frequency of each issue that causes a defect. The bars are ordered by height: the