Poked around the Dreamhost Wiki some more and found this post for installing the Webalizer statistics package. Another straightforward install. Now I have analog, webalizer, and awstats at my disposal.
Dreamhost comes with Analog 6.0. Quite minimalistic for my liking, I summoned Google for a search for “dreamhost awstats” and the first result was from the Dreamhost wiki. AWStats. There was also an alternative method, which is what I used, AWstats Alt. Very straight forward. I also used the wiki author’s awstats config generator.
I now have awstats working and it was effortless.
