Hi
the required SAS-code will be:

data ;
input vaccines placebo no_of_people;
cards;
Enter your data here

;
proc freq data=exe;
table vaccines*placebo / chisq fisher;
weight no_of_people;
run;

I hope this helps.

with regards,

Madan

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<hancock@t...> wrote:
> Thank you Sourav
> Today's question concerns SAS.
> I have data on vaccines and a placebo and I need to do a chi-
squared test
> and a Fisher exact test on the data. I have only 6 numbers. The
two large
> numbers for the number of people in the trial and then two small
numbers for
> each group for the two diseases that it is hoped the vaccine will
present.
> So I have a 2 x 3 table.
> I know very little about SAS. I do know about the 5 windows and
I've played
> around with the help files. I have successfully input my data so
that is
> okay.
> Can anyone get me started on how to do these tests.
> Thanks everyone
> Dora
>
>
> mam,
> send the question...
> ciao
> sourav