Chapter 1  What Is SAS?

1.1  Introduction

1.2  Getting Data into SAS

1.3  A Sample SAS Program

1.4  SAS Names

1.5  SAS Data Sets and SAS Data Types

1.6  The SAS Display Manager and SAS Enterprise Guide

1.7  Problems

1.1  Introduction

SAS is a collection of modules that are used to process and analyze data. It began in the late ’60s and early ’70s as a statistical package (the name SAS originally stood for Statistical Analysis System). However, unlike many competing statistical packages, SAS is also an extremely powerful, general-purpose programming language. We see SAS as the predominant software in the pharmaceutical industry and most Fortune 500 companies. In recent years, it has been enhanced to provide state-of-the-art data mining tools ...

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