Appendix A.1: Introduction to SAS Programs, SAS Logs, and SAS Output

What Is SAS?

Three Types of SAS Files

The SAS Program

The SAS Log

The SAS Output File

SAS Customer Support

Conclusion

Reference

What Is SAS?

SAS is a modular, integrated, and hardware-independent system of statistical software. It is a particularly powerful tool for social scientists because it allows us to easily perform a myriad of statistical analyses that may be required in the course of conducting research. SAS is sufficiently comprehensive to perform the most sophisticated multivariate analyses (i.e., multiple dependent variables), but is also easy to use so that undergraduates can perform basic analyses after only a short period of instruction.

In a sense, SAS may be ...

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