Three of the best tools to learn SAS include:
* Training: Books by Users and SAS training manuals are abundant (see below)
* SAS-L: questions and answers to many common problems
* Mentors: study programs developed by experienced users
SAS Resources on the Internet
Internet sites with good examples or even short courses on SAS are easily
found. Go to a search engine (e.g., yahoo, google, altavista, etc.) and
search for SAS, statistics, or some other keyword related to the topic of
interest. The following URLs are only a small selection of what you may
find:
http://statsoft.nih.gov/training/crsnotes/html/FSPClass.htm
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/modules/
An online tutorial for learning SAS for Windows (version 8.2) can be found
at:
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/stat/tutorials/sas8/sas8.html
You can find answers to frequently asked questions at a SAS site:
http://support.sas.com/techsup/faq/products.html
The following site has comprehensive list of many websites about SAS:
http://www.prochelp.com
An on-line document that is continually updated with new information
called SAS PROGRAMMING AND USAGE HINTS consists of several chapters with
sub-sections on various topics of the SAS System are found at:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~robinh/sas.html
Proceedings in pdf format from the annual SAS User Group International
(SUGI) conferences (Nos. 22-29 held in the years 1997-2004) may be viewed
through your browser (requires Acrobat 5.0) are available at:
http://support.sas.com/usergroups/sugi/proceedings/index.html
Papers on specific topics presented at SUGI meetings can be researched at:
http://www.lexjansen.com/sugi/
This page allows you to type in keywords to search for relevant articles.
Several region SAS user groups have web sites for proceedings from past
conferences; for one try the NESUG (2004):
http://www.nesug.org/html/Proceedings/nesug04.pdf
SAS Manuals and Documentation
The following link from the SAS Institute to bookmark is:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/index.html
which directs you to SAS documentation on SAS 8.2, SAS 9.1, SAS 9.1.2, SAS
9.1.3, a host of "What's new in this version" notes, supplemental
documentation on SAS products installation documentation, and more.
Specifically, you can find documentation for Version 9.1.3 at two SAS web
sites.
Another site to add to your browser's "Favorites" is user-friendly in the
sense that it allows you to search the table of contents for specific
topics and then select links for further information.
http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp
The following site provides the actual contents of various SAS manuals in
PDF format which you can browse or print as needed.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/91pdf/index_913.html
You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later to view or print these
documents. Please note, the entire contents of each manual are place in
one document -- some of them have 1000's of pages (e.g., the STAT manual
alone has over 5000!) so be judicious and print only the pages you need.
These manuals are also available for purchase.
The individual manuals (the "white" books for Version 6 and "blue" books
for version 8) took up most of the available space on a moderate size
bookcase shelf, plus they were heavy and laborious to find a topic of
interest. To alleviate the need to read through large books, SAS Version
8.2 documentation continues to be available to University of Oregon users
at:
http://sas.uoregon.edu/sashtml/main.htm
The SAS Institute also has documentation available online for Version 8
which can be found at:
http://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/
You may add any of these pages to your "Favorites" in a web browser for
fast and easy reference. A master index is available on the University
site so you can locate just about any topic, procedure, or keyword
quickly.
A few of the most helpful manuals for all versions of SAS include:
Introductory Guide - Assumes you're a beginner, but that you have basic
knowledge about using a computer on which SAS runs (UNIX, VMS, or
WINDOWS).
* SAS Introductory Guide (Version 6)
Usage - Assumes you have at least introductory knowledge of SAS. It
contains many excellent examples and descriptions of techniques. Usage
manuals are difficult to use effectively until you gain familiarity with
the system.
* SAS Language Reference, Vols. 1 and 2 (Version 8)
* SAS Procedures Guide, Vols. 1 and 2 (Version 8)
* SAS Language and Procedures (Version 6)
Statistics and Econometrics. It assumes working knowledge of the DATA step
and of the statistical procedure to be applied to your data.
* SAS Stat User's Guide, Vols. 1, 2, and 3 (Version 8)
* ETS User's Guide, Second Ed. (Version 6)
Many more manuals on specialized topics are available from the SAS
Institute (also in the Computing Center's documents room) depending on
specific tools you need including:
* SAS System for Regression
* SAS System for Linear Models, 4th Ed. - Littel
* A Step-by-Step Approach to using Univariate and Multivariate
Statistics - Hutchinson
* Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd Ed, - Stokes, Davis, and Koch
* SAS System for Mixed Models, 2nd Ed. - Littel, Milliken, Stroup, Wolfinger
* SAS Guide to Problem Solving and Error Messages
The companion for the platform you're using (e.g. Windows, Unix, VMS) is
also quite helpful, as are the guides to SQL, Macro, REPORT, TABULATE, and
other products describing STAT or GRAPH procedures.
The home page for SAS publications is:
http://www.sas.com/apps/pubscat/welcome.jsp
From this site you can easily locate SAS manuals and books on many topics
written by users (Books By Users) with the search feature. "SAS Course
Notes" are good resources to know and are interspersed in the following
list (among others):
http://www.sas.com/apps/pubscat/booklist.jsp?attr=product&val=Base+SAS
Books: SAS Learning Resources
The following resources are good "getting started" guides and
introductions to SAS:
Lora D. Delviche and Susan J. Slaughter. "The Little SAS Book: A Primer".
(3rd edition). [Note: It has important new material related to version 9.1
and is an excellent introduction to get you up and running with SAS.]
Cody, R. P. and Smith, J. K., Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming
Language, Fourth Edition, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1997.
Aster, Rick and Seidman, Rhena, Professional SAS Programming Secrets,
Windcrest, 1991. [Note: It is practically the only one treating SAS as a
general programming language.]
Frank C. DiIorio. "SAS Applications Programming: A Gentle Introduction"
SAS-L Newsgroup
The SAS-L newsgroup list is a great resource to share knowledge of SAS
applications with other users. To subscribe to SAS-L, send the following
message to the listserv at: [email protected] with the text of the
message:
Subscribe SAS-L
your address to their list so your INBOX is likely to fill up rapidly. You
can also read the messages posted each day from the news groups servers on
oregon, darkwing, or gladstone by adding: comp.soft-sys.sas
You can also check the SAS list archives and search for topics:
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html
Other URLs for learning SAS
http://www.sas.com/techsup/intro.html [SAS technical support]
http://www.sconsig.com/ [Charles Patridge's SAS site]
http://www.pwcons.com/Tips/index.html [PW Consulting's SAS Tips]
http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/lab/sas/ [SAS Information Guides]
How to Reference SAS in Reports and other Documents
http://www.sas.com/presscenter/guidelines.html
The proper citations for SAS publications can be found on the copyright
page of the individual work.
source:http://www.uoregon.edu/~robinh/018learn.txt
* Training: Books by Users and SAS training manuals are abundant (see below)
* SAS-L: questions and answers to many common problems
* Mentors: study programs developed by experienced users
SAS Resources on the Internet
Internet sites with good examples or even short courses on SAS are easily
found. Go to a search engine (e.g., yahoo, google, altavista, etc.) and
search for SAS, statistics, or some other keyword related to the topic of
interest. The following URLs are only a small selection of what you may
find:
http://statsoft.nih.gov/training/crsnotes/html/FSPClass.htm
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/modules/
An online tutorial for learning SAS for Windows (version 8.2) can be found
at:
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/stat/tutorials/sas8/sas8.html
You can find answers to frequently asked questions at a SAS site:
http://support.sas.com/techsup/faq/products.html
The following site has comprehensive list of many websites about SAS:
http://www.prochelp.com
An on-line document that is continually updated with new information
called SAS PROGRAMMING AND USAGE HINTS consists of several chapters with
sub-sections on various topics of the SAS System are found at:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~robinh/sas.html
Proceedings in pdf format from the annual SAS User Group International
(SUGI) conferences (Nos. 22-29 held in the years 1997-2004) may be viewed
through your browser (requires Acrobat 5.0) are available at:
http://support.sas.com/usergroups/sugi/proceedings/index.html
Papers on specific topics presented at SUGI meetings can be researched at:
http://www.lexjansen.com/sugi/
This page allows you to type in keywords to search for relevant articles.
Several region SAS user groups have web sites for proceedings from past
conferences; for one try the NESUG (2004):
http://www.nesug.org/html/Proceedings/nesug04.pdf
SAS Manuals and Documentation
The following link from the SAS Institute to bookmark is:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/index.html
which directs you to SAS documentation on SAS 8.2, SAS 9.1, SAS 9.1.2, SAS
9.1.3, a host of "What's new in this version" notes, supplemental
documentation on SAS products installation documentation, and more.
Specifically, you can find documentation for Version 9.1.3 at two SAS web
sites.
Another site to add to your browser's "Favorites" is user-friendly in the
sense that it allows you to search the table of contents for specific
topics and then select links for further information.
http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp
The following site provides the actual contents of various SAS manuals in
PDF format which you can browse or print as needed.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/91pdf/index_913.html
You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or later to view or print these
documents. Please note, the entire contents of each manual are place in
one document -- some of them have 1000's of pages (e.g., the STAT manual
alone has over 5000!) so be judicious and print only the pages you need.
These manuals are also available for purchase.
The individual manuals (the "white" books for Version 6 and "blue" books
for version 8) took up most of the available space on a moderate size
bookcase shelf, plus they were heavy and laborious to find a topic of
interest. To alleviate the need to read through large books, SAS Version
8.2 documentation continues to be available to University of Oregon users
at:
http://sas.uoregon.edu/sashtml/main.htm
The SAS Institute also has documentation available online for Version 8
which can be found at:
http://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/
You may add any of these pages to your "Favorites" in a web browser for
fast and easy reference. A master index is available on the University
site so you can locate just about any topic, procedure, or keyword
quickly.
A few of the most helpful manuals for all versions of SAS include:
Introductory Guide - Assumes you're a beginner, but that you have basic
knowledge about using a computer on which SAS runs (UNIX, VMS, or
WINDOWS).
* SAS Introductory Guide (Version 6)
Usage - Assumes you have at least introductory knowledge of SAS. It
contains many excellent examples and descriptions of techniques. Usage
manuals are difficult to use effectively until you gain familiarity with
the system.
* SAS Language Reference, Vols. 1 and 2 (Version 8)
* SAS Procedures Guide, Vols. 1 and 2 (Version 8)
* SAS Language and Procedures (Version 6)
Statistics and Econometrics. It assumes working knowledge of the DATA step
and of the statistical procedure to be applied to your data.
* SAS Stat User's Guide, Vols. 1, 2, and 3 (Version 8)
* ETS User's Guide, Second Ed. (Version 6)
Many more manuals on specialized topics are available from the SAS
Institute (also in the Computing Center's documents room) depending on
specific tools you need including:
* SAS System for Regression
* SAS System for Linear Models, 4th Ed. - Littel
* A Step-by-Step Approach to using Univariate and Multivariate
Statistics - Hutchinson
* Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd Ed, - Stokes, Davis, and Koch
* SAS System for Mixed Models, 2nd Ed. - Littel, Milliken, Stroup, Wolfinger
* SAS Guide to Problem Solving and Error Messages
The companion for the platform you're using (e.g. Windows, Unix, VMS) is
also quite helpful, as are the guides to SQL, Macro, REPORT, TABULATE, and
other products describing STAT or GRAPH procedures.
The home page for SAS publications is:
http://www.sas.com/apps/pubscat/welcome.jsp
From this site you can easily locate SAS manuals and books on many topics
written by users (Books By Users) with the search feature. "SAS Course
Notes" are good resources to know and are interspersed in the following
list (among others):
http://www.sas.com/apps/pubscat/booklist.jsp?attr=product&val=Base+SAS
Books: SAS Learning Resources
The following resources are good "getting started" guides and
introductions to SAS:
Lora D. Delviche and Susan J. Slaughter. "The Little SAS Book: A Primer".
(3rd edition). [Note: It has important new material related to version 9.1
and is an excellent introduction to get you up and running with SAS.]
Cody, R. P. and Smith, J. K., Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming
Language, Fourth Edition, Prentice-Hall, New York, 1997.
Aster, Rick and Seidman, Rhena, Professional SAS Programming Secrets,
Windcrest, 1991. [Note: It is practically the only one treating SAS as a
general programming language.]
Frank C. DiIorio. "SAS Applications Programming: A Gentle Introduction"
SAS-L Newsgroup
The SAS-L newsgroup list is a great resource to share knowledge of SAS
applications with other users. To subscribe to SAS-L, send the following
message to the listserv at: [email protected] with the text of the
message:
Subscribe SAS-L
your address to their list so your INBOX is likely to fill up rapidly. You
can also read the messages posted each day from the news groups servers on
oregon, darkwing, or gladstone by adding: comp.soft-sys.sas
You can also check the SAS list archives and search for topics:
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html
Other URLs for learning SAS
http://www.sas.com/techsup/intro.html [SAS technical support]
http://www.sconsig.com/ [Charles Patridge's SAS site]
http://www.pwcons.com/Tips/index.html [PW Consulting's SAS Tips]
http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/lab/sas/ [SAS Information Guides]
How to Reference SAS in Reports and other Documents
http://www.sas.com/presscenter/guidelines.html
The proper citations for SAS publications can be found on the copyright
page of the individual work.
source:http://www.uoregon.edu/~robinh/018learn.txt
