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SAS Introduction

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SAS FROM SCRATCH

Content:

•SAS Introduction
•Guide to install SAS studio
SAS INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS SAS?
SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a statistical software used for data analysis and
for various other purposes such as data management, data mining, report writing,
statistical analysis, predictive analysis and data modelling. It is considered as
‘leader’ in Advanced Analytics Platform developed by SAS institute, an American
based company. It is widely used in different domains like retail, banking, finance,
insurance, medical and many other.
It has more than 200 components,
which includes:
• Base SAS – Basic procedures and data • SAS/QC – Quality control
management
• SAS/INSIGHT – Data mining
• SAS/STAT – Statistical analysis
• SAS/PH – Clinical trial analysis
• SAS/GRAPH – Graphics and presentation
• Enterprise Miner – data mining
• SAS/OR – Operations research
• SAS/ETS – Econometrics and Time Series • Enterprise Guide – GUI based code editor
Analysis & project manager
• SAS/IML – Interactive matrix language • SAS EBI – Suite of Business Intelligence
Applications
• SAS/AF – Applications facility
• SAS Grid Manager – Manager of SAS
grid computing environment
Below are the list of some of the common modules
or components which we will see as for now.
• BASE SAS: It is also known an Display Manager or SAS windowing environment. It is
the traditional Graphical User Interface which helps to create and execute SAS programs
in a variety of operating systems. It is used for data manipulation as filtering data,
selecting, renaming or removing columns etc.
• SAS/STAT: It is used for statistical modelling data. For example, analysis of variance,
linear regression, predictive modelling, Bayesian analysis, multivariate analysis,
standardisation etc.
• SAS/Access: It provides an interface which helps to fetch external files from different
sources like SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle database, Excel etc.
• SAS/Graph: It is a data visualization tool which creates high-impact visuals that gives a
quick and clear insight to decision makers to help them to understand the criticality of the
data.
• SAS/ETS: It is a software which is used for modelling data, forecasting and simulating
processes by using time series analysis.
SAS Software is available for free. Earlier, there was a SAS university edition which was needed to
install on your machine. Now it is not required since August 2021, as it got replaced with SAS
OnDemand for Academics. It is now more accessible and available for everyone-’Instructor’,
‘Student’, and ‘Individual Learners’. All you have to do just create an account on SAS OnDemand
for Academics site and then you go!. Below are the steps shown to access SAS OnDemand for
Academics:

STEP 1:

• First you need to go to the site


https://www.sas.com/en_in/software/on-de
mand-for-academics.html
.Then click on the Access button (in orange
color) at the top right corner.
Step 2:

After clicking on Access you


will see a page where you will
be asked to sign.
If you don’t have SAS profile
then first you have to create
that on by clicking on ‘Don’t
have a SAS profile?’ as shown
in the picture
Step 3:
Once you click on ‘Don’t have
a SAS profile?’ you will land up
on a page like shown in the
picture
where you will be asked to fill a
form to create a profile.
After submitting the form , you
will receive an email asking to
activate your account. Click the
link in your email and activate
your SAS profile.
Step 4:
After activating your SAS
profile from your email, next
you need to set your
password.
Done! You have now created a
SAS profile.
Step 5:
Now click on the link
https://www.sas.com/en_in/so
ftware/on-demand-for-academ
ics.html
. again and now sign.
You will be directed to a web
portal.
Now, choose your home
region for registration.
Important! Take care with this
step. You cannot change your
home region after the
registration.
Step 6:
After clicking on ‘Sign in’
It will take you to the SAS
OnDemand for Academics
dashboard.

Click SAS Studio:


And here you go..
The SAS software will open!
Step 7:
The SAS software will open!
The page will look like this
The SAS Studio interface
contains:
• Code Editor which allows us
to write and modify data.
• LOG is a record where
information like ERROR,
WARNING, INFO, NOTE
and Process time appear.
• RESULT displays printed
output.
That’s it for now…

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