The Analyst Application, Second Edition

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The correct bibliographic citation for this manual is as follows: SAS Institute Inc. 2003. The Analyst Application, Second Edition. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.

Copyright © 2003, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA

ISBN 1-59047-394-9

1-58025-991-x

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Acknowledgments

Credits

Documentation

Writing	Tim Arnold, Elizabeth Brownrigg, Nathan Curtis, Marty King, Maura Stokes, Lori Witham
Editing	Donna M. Sawyer, Maura Stokes
Editorial Support	Dee Doles
Production Support and Cover Design	Creative Solutions Division

Software

Development	David DeNardis, Gregg Kemp, Julie LaBarr, Jeanne Martin, Katherine J. Roggenkamp, Jeff Sun, Wayne E. Watson
Testing	Daniel S. Adelsberg, Nathan A. Curtis, Wendy Hassler, Lori Witham, Ozkan Zengin

Support Group

Quality Assurance

Mark F. Austin, Katherine Giacoletti, Kelly M. Graham

About the Analyst Application

The Analyst Application is a point-and-click interface to basic statistical analyses in the SAS System. These analyses are performed primarily by using procedures in base SAS and SAS/STAT software, although some analyses are carried out with the use of specially written SAS macros.

Documentation

This book describes the features of the Analyst Application and how to use it to perform typical analyses, but it is not intended to teach or describe the statistical methodology that is employed. You can find a description of the statistical techniques used in the SAS/STAT User's Guide and more tutorial-style information in several Books By Users (BBU) books. The pertinent books are listed in the back of each statistical task chapter.

Software Requirements

The Analyst Application is available in Version 8 of the SAS System for the following platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, UNIX workstations, OS/2, OpenVMS Alpha, and VMS VAX. Required are the following:

• Base SAS software, SAS/STAT, and SAS/GRAPH must be installed.

• SAS/ASSIST must be licensed.

• SAS/ACCESS must be installed in order to import external PC file formats.

• SAS/IML must be installed in order to produce confidence ellipses in the Correlations task and partial regression plots in the Linear Regression task; the selections are grayed out if SAS/IML is not available.

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