Related SAS Software

Many features not found in SAS/STAT software are available in other parts of the SAS System. If you don't find something you need in SAS/STAT software, try looking for the feature in the following SAS software products.

Base SAS Software

The features provided by SAS/STAT software are in addition to the features provided by Base SAS software. Many data management and reporting capabilities you will need are part of Base SAS software. Refer to SAS Language Reference: Concepts, SAS Language Reference: Dictionary , and the SAS Procedures Guide for documentation of Base SAS software.

SAS DATA Step

The DATA step is your primary tool for reading and processing data in the SAS System. The DATA step provides a powerful general purpose programming language that enables you to perform all kinds of data processing tasks . The DATA step is documented in SAS Language Reference: Concepts .

Base SAS Procedures

Base SAS software includes many useful SAS procedures. Base SAS procedures are documented in the SAS Procedures Guide . The following is a list of Base SAS procedures you may find useful:

CORR	compute correlations
RANK	compute rankings or order statistics
STANDARD	standardize variables to a fixed mean and variance
MEANS	compute descriptive statistics and summarizing or collapsing data over cross sections
TABULATE	print descriptive statistics in tabular format
UNIVARIATE	compute descriptive statistics

SAS/ETS Software

SAS/ETS software provides SAS procedures for econometrics and time series analysis. It includes capabilities for forecasting, systems modeling and simulation, seasonal adjustment, and financial analysis and reporting. In addition, SAS/ETS software includes an interactive time series forecasting system.

SAS/GRAPH Software

SAS/GRAPH software includes procedures that create two- and three-dimensional high-resolution color graphics plots and charts . You can generate output that graphs the relationship of data values to one another, enhance existing graphs, or simply create graphics output that is not tied to data.

SAS/IML Software

SAS/IML software gives you access to a powerful and flexible programming language (Interactive Matrix Language) in a dynamic, interactive environment. The fundamental object of the language is a data matrix. You can use SAS/IML software interactively (at the statement level) to see results immediately, or you can store statements in a module and execute them later. The programming is dynamic because necessary activities such as memory allocation and dimensioning of matrices are done automatically. SAS/IML software is of interest to users of SAS/STAT software because it enables you to program your methods in the SAS System.

SAS/INSIGHT Software

SAS/INSIGHT software is a highly interactive tool for data analysis. You can explore data through a variety of interactive graphs including bar charts, scatter plots, box plots, and three-dimensional rotating plots. You can examine distributions and perform parametric and nonparametric regression, analyze general linear models and generalized linear models, examine correlation matrixes , and perform principal component analyses. Any changes you make to your data show immediately in all graphs and analyses. You can also configure SAS/INSIGHT software to produce graphs and analyses tailored to the way you work.

SAS/INSIGHT software may be of interest to users of SAS/STAT software for interactive graphical viewing of data, editing data, exploratory data analysis, and checking distributional assumptions.

SAS/OR Software

SAS/OR software provides SAS procedures for operations research and project planning and includes a point-and-click interface to project management. Its capabilities include the following:

• solving transportation problems

• linear, integer, and mixed-integer programming

• nonlinear programming

• scheduling projects

• plotting Gantt charts

• drawing network diagrams

• solving optimal assignment problems

• network flow programming

SAS/OR software may be of interest to users of SAS/STAT software for its mathematical programming features. In particular, the NLP procedure in SAS/OR software solves nonlinear programming problems, and it can be used for constrained and unconstrained maximization of user -defined likelihood functions.

SAS/QC Software

SAS/QC software provides a variety of procedures for statistical quality control and quality improvement. SAS/QC software includes procedures for

• Shewhart control charts

• cumulative sum control charts

• moving average control charts

• process capability analysis

• Ishikawa diagrams

• Pareto charts

• experimental design

SAS/QC software also includes the ADX interface for experimental design.