1. An Overview of SAS University Edition Cheng Lei rexlei86@uvic.ca Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Victoria Mar 12, 2015

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

3. 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…

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

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

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

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

8. 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

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

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

12. Demo

13. Thank You!!!