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SAS Software Overview for Analysts

SAS is a statistical software package developed in the 1970s at North Carolina State University for managing and analyzing agricultural data. It is now the most widely used statistical software. SAS can be run on Windows, Unix, and Mac operating systems. It offers products for statistical analysis, graphics, and accessing different data sources. The typical SAS program involves a data step to create a SAS dataset from raw data, followed by proc steps to generate reports, graphs, and process the data.

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SAS Software Overview for Analysts

SAS is a statistical software package developed in the 1970s at North Carolina State University for managing and analyzing agricultural data. It is now the most widely used statistical software. SAS can be run on Windows, Unix, and Mac operating systems. It offers products for statistical analysis, graphics, and accessing different data sources. The typical SAS program involves a data step to create a SAS dataset from raw data, followed by proc steps to generate reports, graphs, and process the data.

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INTRODUCTION OF SAS

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What Is SAS?
SAS - Statistical analysis system/software
Developed in the early 1970s at North Carolina

State University.
Originally intended for management and analysis

of agricultural field experiments.


Now the it is most widely used statistical software
CEO - Jim Goodnight (Founder of SAS institute)

More about SAS


1st generation-Pascal,cobol
2nd generation-c
3rd generation-c++,.net,java

4th generation-SAS
We can install in any operating system - windows, Unix,
McTosh

SAS competitors
Informatica(GUI - graphical user interface)
Teradata

SPSS
SYSTAT
STRATICA
Hyperion
Cognos

Products of SAS

SAS/STAT
SAS/GRAPH
SAS/ACCESS

Running SAS Program


You can invoke SAS in the following ways:

Interactive Window mode(SAS Windowing Environment)


Interactive menu drive mode(SAS Enterprise guide)

Batch execution
Non interactive execution

Introduction of SAS
Programs

Work Flow of SAS

RAW DATA

DATA
STEP

SAS
DATASET

PROC
STEP

REPORT

SAS Programs
SAS program is a sequence of steps that the user submits for execution.
Two steps :
1. Data step - This is typically used to create SAS dataset.
2. Proc step - This is typically used to process the data i.e. generating
reports and graphs, editing and sorting the data

Example of DATA Step And Proc Step


Data [Link];

Data
Step

Infile raw-data-file;

Input firstname$1-20 lastname$ 21-30 jobtitle 31-40 salary 45-50;


Run;

Proc print data =[Link];


Run;

Proc
Step

Proc sort data [Link];


By empid;
Run;

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