SAS Statistical Package
Introduction
Statistical Analysis System (SAS) is a very popular statistical package that can be used for data management, report writing, statistical analysis, and graphics. Among its statistical capabilities are descriptive statistics, cross- tabulation, regression, analysis of variance, survival analysis, multivariate techniques, econometric and time series procedures, and operations research techniques.
Type sas at the ACS prompt (or ACS-linux prompt) to execute the program.
SAS supports both X Window and ASCII interfaces, and will automatically initiate the correct protocol.
References
To examine the online man page, type: man sas at the ACS prompt.
When using SAS, click the help button to access SAS’s internal help facility.
Individual copies may be obtained from BUMC (not IS&T) for a fee. See …