Introduction to Mortgage with SAS Welcome to IT’s seminar on stat. packages Sam Gordji, Weir 107

List of Statistical Packages SPSS SAS Mathematica MathWorks IMSL

Mortgage with SAS SAS SAS (50 Copies available to the faculty and additional 50 copies are available for student use, IT has most of the SAS modules but not all). The cost for SAS is $75 per copy per year. To obtain a copy of SAS please send to or

List of Statistical Packages Mathematica  Mathematica (free copy for faculty, staff, and students). To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit p?pagename=mathematica.inc

List of Statistical Packages Matlab  Matlab (available on willow and sweetgum)  Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will be mentioned briefly

List of Statistical Packages IMSL  IMSL is a comprehensive package containing Math., stat., and special functions  IMSL is available only on sweetgum  IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran program

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General Information  This seminar covers SAS/Mortgage  SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus  We’ll look at an example of Proc Mortgage with SAS and an example of a Mortgage using VB

General Information  SAS performs statistical analysis  SPSS performs statistical analysis and is similar to SAS  Mathematica’s main function is to perform mathematical operations including statistics  MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and is available on willow and sweetgum

General Information  IT staff will assist users to access these packages. We also assist users to find the proper procedure to analyze their data. If you need assistance please send to Sam Gordji at or

Today We’ll Cover  Creating a simple SAS program (*.log, *.lst)  Example of a Mortgage program with SAS (mort1.sas)  Example of Mortgage program with Visual Basic (VB)