UNIX Program: SAS

Contents

• Description
• Instructions for SAS

Description

SAS is primarily  a statistical package, but it also performs many other functions. SAS functions include (but are not limited to):

• Statistical analysis (e.g., means, standard deviations, tables, regression, t-test, ANOVA, factor analysis, logistic regression, two-stage least squares, time series).
• Programming (e.g., data preparation, transformations).
• Matrix algebra.
• Graphics (e.g., histograms, pie charts, two-dimensional plots, three-dimensional plots, maps).
• Utilities (e.g., sorting, copying data, identifying contents of a SAS data set, transporting SAS files between different computing systems).
• Data entry: Customized prompts for entering data.

The current version of SAS is SAS 9.2. See the SAS documentation for SAS 9.2 to see a long list of new features.