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Getting Started with SAS for UNIX
John Samuel
Spring 2006
This document is available in the following formats:
Web-based Tutorial
One Long Web Page
Adobe Acrobat
(for printing)
Table of Contents
Introduction
How To Use This Document
What is SAS?
Example Data
Overview of Sample Data
Downloading Sample Data
Writing a SAS Program: The DATA Step
DATA Statement
INPUT Statement
INFILE Statement
CARDS Statement
SAS Functions
LABEL Statement
FORMAT Statement
Writing a SAS Program: The PROC Step
FREQ Statement
MEANS Statement
CORR Statement
ENDSAS Statement
Writing and Executing a SAS Program
Writing a SAS Program
Modes of Execution
Interactive Execution
Non-interactive Execution
Batch Execution under AIX
SAS Data Sets
Creating SAS Data Sets
Accessing SAS Data Sets
Reading Compressed Files
SAS Transport Files
Further Reading