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

List of Statistical Packages SPSS SAS Mathematica Mathlab IMSL

SAS 50 copies are available for faculty use For each copy purchased, a faculty member can get a free copy (to be installed on a student PC) The cost is $100 per copy per year To obtain a copy of SAS please

List of Statistical Packages Mathematica  Free copy for faculty, staff, and students. To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit: me=mathematica.inc

List of Statistical Packages Matlab  Matlab is 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  SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab (5 copies), Weir 107, and several other labs around campus  We’ll look at a few short examples of SAS

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)  Creating and running a small SAS  Checking the *.log file  Checking the *.lst, listing file

Activating and Running SAS on Windows Click on the “SAS” icon to activate SAS Enter the just the blue text in the Editor window data test; /* The name of the program */ input a b c; /* Variables are a, b, and c */ cards; /* Input will follow “card” */ ; /* end of data */ proc print; proc means; run; /* run procedures print & means */

Running SAS on Windows Click “run” and then “submit” the above example

Running SAS on Windows (Cont.) Results will appear in the “output” window

Running SAS on Windows (Cont.) Above shows the log file