SAS Information Guides

These guides were originally converted from documents prepared for various courses. They are somewhat spotty, but they may be a useful start.

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Getting Started || SAS & Unix || SAS & Windows || SAS Procedures || SAS/GRAPH || Internet SAS Resources || SAS Macros || York Psych. Course SAS Info

Getting Started

• SAS V8 for Windows Tutorial (from University of Texas). An excellent tutorial on SAS V8 for Windows, and on Importing Data into SAS. Also describes the Analyst Application.
• SAS OnlineDoc, V9.1.3,
• Introduction to SAS for Windows
• Introduction to SAS
• SAS Program Steps Overview of PROC and DATA steps.
• Using SAS/INSIGHT For further information, see:
  • Overview of SAS/Insight for Interactive Data Analysis from SAS Institute R&D
  • User Guide to SAS/INSIGHT and SAS/ASSIST from NCSU. There are step-by-step instructions for some standard data analysis methods.
• The SAS Macro Facility A guide to SAS macros, and how to use them.
• More SAS Resources and Information Guides An extensive collection of links to Introductory SAS Guides and other information, from Rutgers.

SAS & Unix

• Getting started with SAS on Phoenix. Setting up your phoenix account for Psychology courses.
• A Guide to using SAS on UNIX (from Univ. Michigan)
• SAS Datastep Sample Programs for UNIX from SAS Inst
• Converting SAS Files between Unix and PC How to convert and transfer SAS datasets from Unix to PCs and vice-versa.

SAS & Windows

You have tried the online help in SAS itself?

• SAS V8 for Windows Tutorial (from University of Texas). An excellent tutorial on SAS V8 for Windows, and on Importing Data into SAS. Also describes the Analyst Application
• SAS 6.12 Control and Function keys Handy shortcuts for editing and other tasks.
• Exchanging Data with Windows-Based Spreadsheets How to get data back and forth between SAS and Excel.
• Converting SAS to SPSS
• Converting SPSS to SAS
• Installing Web help in SAS 6.12 How to make these guides a keystroke away.
• Publication quality graphics in SAS for Windows .
• Getting SAS Graphics into Word, Powerpoint, etc. Describes several ways to get SAS/GRAPH and SAS/INSIGHT graphics into common Windows applications.

SAS Procedures

Base SAS Procedures

These brief descriptions (mostly from Rutgers), give the basic syntax, and sample output from common SAS procedures.

• PROC CHART - Histograms, bar charts, pie charts, etc
• PROC CORR -Correlations, partial correlations, even reliability (Chronbach's alpha)
• PROC FREQ - Cross tables, Chi-square
• PROC MEANS - means, and other descriptive statistics
• PROC PLOT - scatterplots
• PROC PRINT - Print a data set
• PROC SORT - Sort a data set
• PROC UNIVARIATE - Descriptive statistics, box plots, normal probability plots
• SAS Base Sample Programs A collection of sample programs from SAS Inst, organize by PROC

SAS/STAT Procedures

These are brief summaries of some SAS statistical procedures prepared for student use.

Linear models: ANOVA, Regression

• Regression with SAS, has a nice chapter on regression diagnostics
• Linear Models in SAS An overview of regression and analysis of variance procedures. (from Univ. Michigan).
• Slicing interactions in factorial designs (with examples for GLM and MIXED)
• Web-based SAS code generator for experimental designs (from Oliver Schabenberger's site)
• PROC ANOVA/GLM Summary
• PROC REG Summary
• RSQUARE Summary
• PROC REG, V6 Enhancements - interactive statements, plots in PROC REG, Model-selection methods (Stepwise, etc.)

Other

• PROC LOGISTIC - Logistic regression
• Introduction to SAS/IML
• PROC CORRESP - Correspondence analysis for categorical data
• PROC PLAN - Constructing an experimental design
• PROC PRINQUAL and PROC TRANSREG - Optimal data transformations
• PROC CALIS - Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models
• MANOVA, repeated measures, categorical data analysis (from Univ. Michigan)

SAS/GRAPH

• Graphing made easy with Graph-N-Go A menu-driven component of the V8 SAS Display Manager. Point/click, drag/drop, to create bar, pie, scatterplot graphs, and you can save the SAS/Graph source statements.
• Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Extended notes from a Short Course on SAS/GRAPH.
• Graphic Catalogs and Proc GREPLAY
• intro to SAS/GRAPH - Hands-On Session
• intro to SAS/GRAPH - Hands-On Session 2
• SAS/Graph Syntax Summary
• Exporting SAS/Graph Plots to Other Applications
• SAS/GRAPH sample programs from SAS Inst. These programs illustrate the use of various SAS/GRAPH procedures. For each program, a sample of the graph produced by the program is provided. You can click on the graph to see the source code used to generate it!
• Getting publication quality graphics in SAS for Windows (from Oliver Schabenberger's site)

Other Internet SAS Resources

• The SCS Statistical and Statistical Graphics Resources collection of SAS statistical pointers An extensive set of WWW links to SAS programs, documents, how-to guides, etc.
• Noteworthy links
  • SAS Frequently Asked Questions from USC. A large collection of short notes on how to read SAS data in a wide variety of formats.
  • Creating Experimental Designs
    Examples of the use of PROC PLAN for generating a wide variety of experimental designs.
  • SAS Code for Some Experimental Designs
    GLM and MIXED code for a variety of experimental designs

SAS Macro Programs

Links to documentation for SAS macros installed on Hebb. You might also wish to consult The SAS Macro Facility, a guide to SAS macros, and how to use them.

• Documentation and programs for my SAS Graphic Programs and Macros. Some of these are are from SAS System for Statistical Graphics, others from Visualizing Categorical Data
• INTRACC - intraclass correlation for rater reliability intracc.sas
• META - macro for a meta analysis

York Psychology Course SAS Information

• Psychology 3030: Intermediate Statistics
  • SAS Programs
  • NWK Problem Data Sets
• Psychology 6140: Multivariate Data Analysis
  • SAS Programs
  • SAS/INSIGHT Demonstration
  • MDS and Cluster Analysis Examples