Transcript intro_sas_ent_guide0808.ppt

Introduction to
SAS/Enterprise Guide
Welcome to IT’s seminar on statistical
packages
Sam Gordji, [email protected]
Weir 107
List of Statistical Packages
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SPSS
SAS
Mathematica
MathWorks
IMSL
SAS
The cost for SAS is $100 per copy per
year. 50 copies are available to the faculty
and an additional 50 copies are available
for student use. IT has most of the SAS
modules but not all. To obtain a copy of
SAS please send an email to
[email protected] or
[email protected]
List of Statistical Packages
Mathematica
 A free copy for faculty, staff, and students. To
obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php
?pagename=mathematica.inc
List of Statistical Packages
Matlab
 Matlab (available on willow and sweetgum)
 Other packages, such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. ,
will be mentioned briefly
List of Statistical Packages
IMSL
 IMSL is a comprehensive package containing
math, stat., and special functions
 IMSL is only available on sweetgum
 IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran
program
General Information
 Email contact
– Email your questions to [email protected]
 Please fill out the performance report and leave
your email address so we may contact you for
follow up questions
General Information
 This seminar covers SAS and the SAS
Enterprise Guide (EG)
 SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are
available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107,
and several other labs around campus
 We’ll look at a few short examples of
SAS & SAS/EG
General Information
 SAS performs statistical analysis
 SPSS also performs statistical analysis
and is similar to SAS
 Mathematica’s main function is to perform
mathematical operations including
statistics
 MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and
is available on willow and sweetgum
General Information
 IT staff will assist users to access these
packages. We also assist users to find the
proper procedure to analyze their data. If
you need assistance please send an email
to Sam Gordji at [email protected], or
[email protected]
Today’s Topics
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Enterprise Guide (EG) is a Front-End Program
for SAS
Available to those who have SAS
While running EG, SAS runs in the background
EG builds tasks while SAS runs them
EG accepts various formats, e.g. *.xls
Programming is done by “Point and Click” and
“Drag and Drop”
Access to much of SAS procs
Creating and running a few examples
Getting Help From SAS
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The main Webpage:
http://www.sas.com/
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For information on Documentations for SAS visit:
http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp
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Link for EG
http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/query_reporting/guide/
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We’ll visit the above site and look at SAS Base & EG
Getting Help From SAS
• Link for Enterprise Guide
http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/query_reportin
g/guide/
• We’ll visit the above site and look at SAS Base &
EG (the examples are not yet included)