An Overview of SAS University Edition Cheng Lei Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Victoria Mar 12, 2015

Outline ❖ Benefits & Constraints ❖ Procedures in University Edition ❖ Demo

Constraints Display manager not supported SAS/GRAPH not supported, but use ODS & SG procedure to produce graphs Some high-performance procedures not supported No access to the virtual machine, and so on But…

Benefits Free to use Enough modules for academic research Gain experience for SAS software & career development Lots of supportive teaching & learning resource online

Five Procedures SAS/IML SAS/STAT Base SAS SAS Studio SAS/ACCESS

Base SAS It is the foundation of the U edition Produce reports & ODS graphics Provides libraries of language procedures Support SQL

SAS/STAT Including analysis of variance, cluster analysis and etc. Provides statistical methods

SAS/IML A matrix language, like Matlab Provides operators and functions for most matrix operation Can self-define functions and modules Only for 2-dimensional matrices

SAS Studio Interactive feedback and prompts Pop-up syntax help Automatic code generating Browser-based interface for data operations

SAS/ACCESS Provides integrated interface to access data Support database, excel, JMP, SPSS and etc.

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