On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, TWB2%Rates%FAR@GO01.COMP.PGE.COM wrote:

>I suppose that reasoning is valid, as long as you expect no productivity from >salaried employees...

Tim, I'm not sure that this isn't a case of what, over here, we call 'making a mountain out of a molehill'. Quite apart from my suggestion that, if he has SAS/GRAPH, the questionner may not actually need to write any routines, for someone who is aware of the mathematics involved, to write DATA step code to determine the regression equation (if that is all that's wanted) ought not to take more than a few minutes; after all, it's only a question of accumulating a few quantities and then doing a bit of arithmetic at the end of the step!

Regards

John

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