Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical method ... The ANOVA test is the first step in analyzing factors that affect a given data set. Once the test is finished, an analyst performs further ...

With the FACTOR procedure, you can indirectly give arbitrary weights to the variables by using the COV option and rescaling the variables to have variance equal to the ... including the weights in a ...

This process is analogous to performing an analysis of variance on continuous data, which can be performed by PROC CATMOD. If there are n nominal variables, rather than 1, then PROC CATMOD can do an n ...