Just Enough SAS®: A Quick-Start Guide to SAS® for Engineers

Chapter 6. Plotting Your Data with SAS/GRAPH Software

• 6.1 Introduction 138

• 6.2 Viewing, Saving, and Naming Your Graphic Ouput 142

• 6.3 PROC GPLOT 146

• 6.4 PROC GCHART 180

• 6.5 More Than Enough 198

• 6.6 Chapter Summary 208

Introduction

The best way to understand your data is to plot it in such a way that the important relationships are clearly visible. For example,Figure 6-1 shows the distribution of Resistance and Delay for each vendor, the relationship of Delay to Resistance, and how the relationship varies among the vendors.Figure 6-2 shows the increasing defect rate for ChiTronix components, the statistical significance of the trend, and its relation to the specification limit. The BOXPLOT, ANOM, and UNIVARIATE procedures discussed in Chapter 5 produce ...