This chapter introduces the reader to SAS.
What is SAS? SAS is a company offering a huge suite of statistical analysis programs
with many desirable features. There are many solutions and pieces of software in the
SAS suite of software, including:
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SAS®9 is a core suite of data extraction, manipulation, analysis and reporting tools which
we use in this book. These are a powerful, highly efficient, data analysis solutions
used the world over. SAS 9 mostly uses a programming interface, which I discuss below.
In this book I specifically use SAS 9.4, but the content also applies to earlier versions
like SAS 9.3.
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SAS® Studio contains many similar functions to SAS 9 – although not all – and uses your web browser ...