1. Introduction to Linear Regression with SAS Welcome to IT’s seminar on statistical packages Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.educcsam@olemiss.edu Weir 107

2. List of Statistical Packages SPSS SAS Mathematica MathWorks IMSL

3. List of Statistical Packages The cost for SAS is $100 per copy per year. 50 copies are available to the faculty and an additional 50 copies are available for student use. IT has most of the SAS modules but not all. To obtain a copy of SAS please send an email to ccsam@olemiss.edu or ccsam@olemiss.edu assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu

4. List of Statistical Packages Mathematica  A free copy is available for faculty, staff, and students. To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.ph p?pagename=mathematica.inc http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.ph p?pagename=mathematica.inc

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

6. 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

7. General Information  Email contact –Email your questions to ccsam@olemiss.educcsam@olemiss.edu  To download this and other materials visit: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.php? pagename=summercamp08.inc http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/educationsubpage.php? pagename=summercamp08.inc  Please fill out the performance report and leave your email address so we may contact you for follow up questions

8. General Information  This seminar covers SAS/Regression  SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus  We’ll take a look at several examples of a regression using SAS

9. General Information  SAS performs statistical analysis  SPSS also 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

10. 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 an email to Sam Gordji at ccsam@olemiss.edu, assist@mcsr.olemiss.eduassist@mcsr.olemiss.edu, or mathadm@olemiss.edu

11. Getting Help From SAS The main Webpage: http://www.sas.com/ For information on Documentations for SAS Visit: http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp We’ll visit the above site and look at SAS Base & Step- by-Step Programming

12. Submitting Your Questions To SAS Send your questions to: http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform/index.jsp SAS Resources: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/mathematica/fall_se m/SASResources.ppt

13. Today We’ll Cover  Creating a simple SAS program (*.log, *.lst)  Examples of simple regression with SAS (reg748re.sas, regcampB3.sas, reg.sas, regschaum.sas) Tested 8/11/08

14. Accessing SAS/willow  SAS on willow may be accessed from almost anywhere  To activate SAS under willow enter: sas my.sas. My.sas is the input file