SAS For Dummies

SAS Institute has hundreds of SAS products, so a partial list of the ones you might run will help you know which one to use for your job. The tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office create SAS programs that call on SAS procedures. Having a list of those procedures and being able to find them quickly in SAS Enterprise Guide will boost your efficiency.

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Selecting the Correct SAS Product

SAS Institute offers hundreds of SAS products, and sometimes it's difficult to decide which tool you should use for your work. Here is a partial list of SAS products you might encounter and who uses them for what purpose. As a SAS customer, you might use just one of these products or a few of them; if you're really lucky, you might use them all.

SAS, or the SAS System

The SAS System is the original SAS product that customers have used in one form or another for more than 30 years, on systems ranging from big mainframes to laptops. It's also known as Display Manager (the name of the windowing interface), or Base SAS, or just plain old SAS. The SAS System is primarily a tool for people comfortable with writing SAS programs. It contains the data processing and analytics engine that is at the core of most SAS products.

SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide provides a modern, easy-to-use interface to much of the power of SAS. SAS Enterprise Guide is used by SAS programmers, business analysts (who might or might not have programming skills), and statisticians. It’s a Microsoft Windows application that can connect to SAS; you can use it to drive the SAS analytics engine running on a mainframe, UNIX, or other remote machines as a server application. SAS Enterprise Guide is like a general store for SAS, where you can get a little bit of everything that SAS has to offer.

SAS Data Integration Studio

SAS Data Integration Studio is used to create and maintain data warehouses and data marts, which are specialized stores of data that have been prepared for effective reporting and analytics. Data experts, such as database administrators and IT specialists — people who support other folks who have to create reports — use SAS Data Integration Studio. Like SAS Enterprise Guide, this is a client application that runs on your desktop and provides an intuitive user interface, but it can connect to SAS and databases that run on machines all over your organization.

SAS Enterprise Miner

SAS Enterprise Miner is used for data mining, or investigating patterns in large amounts of data. Statisticians and professional modelers use SAS Enterprise Miner to segment data and create descriptive or predictive models. For example, a bank might use such a model to predict how likely you are to respond to a certain credit card offering. If your data profile is similar enough to others who have responded to similar offers, SAS Enterprise Miner would produce a model that indicates you're worth sending the offer to. Hello, Platinum card!

SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

Some people spend most of their working days working with a Microsoft Office application such as Excel or PowerPoint. SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office lets you open SAS data sources and run SAS analyses without ever having to leave the comfy world of your spreadsheet or slideshow. SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office is used by business analysts who don't really need to know anything about SAS programming but need the answers that SAS can provide.

SAS Web Report Studio

All business intelligence software vendors must have a Web-based reporting product, and SAS Web Report Studio fits that bill. SAS Web Report Studio allows you to create and distribute reports to anyone who needs them, all without leaving your Web browser.

SAS Forecast Studio

SAS Forecast Studio analyzes time-based data and forecasting future trends and events. It's like a crystal ball, only better! SAS Forecast Studio is used by professional modelers or statisticians who understand concepts such as seasonality and intermittent demand models. However, no SAS programming is required!

JMP

JMP is a standalone, highly visual analytics product. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, or Linux-based computers. JMP is sometimes packaged with SAS and can work with other SAS products, but most often it's used by researchers, engineers, and quality-control experts who want advanced analytics without a big software footprint.

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SAS Procedures and Their Location in SAS Enterprise Guide

The tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office cover a wide range of SAS capabilities. These SAS tasks are easy-to-use interfaces that create SAS programs to do their work. The programs call on SAS procedures, where each procedure represents a specialized capability. And to make it even more interesting, SAS (the company) provides these procedures in product bundles, which must be separately licensed for customers to use them. With all of this at work, it can be tricky to keep track of which tasks use which procedures that need which SAS products.

The following table lays it all out for you: all the tasks, how to find them in the menu, which procedures they use, and which SAS products are involved.

Task	Menu Location	SAS Procedures	SAS Products
Import Data (Excel)	File→Import Data	DATA step; IMPORT	Base SAS
Open Information Map	File→Open	DATA step	Base SAS
Linear Models	Tasks→ANOVA	GLM	SAS/STAT
Mixed Models	Tasks→ANOVA	MIXED	SAS/STAT
Nonparametric One-Way ANOVA	Tasks→ANOVA	NPAR1WAY	SAS/STAT
One-Way ANOVA	Tasks→ANOVA	ANOVA; GPLOT	SAS/STAT; SAS/GRAPH
t Test	Tasks→ANOVA	TTEST	SAS/STAT
CDF Plots	Tasks→Capability	CAPABILITY	SAS/QC
Histograms	Tasks→Capability	CAPABILITY	SAS/QC
P-P Plots	Tasks→Capability	CAPABILITY	SAS/QC
Probability Plots	Tasks→Capability	CAPABILITY	SAS/QC
Q-Q Plots	Tasks→Capability	CAPABILITY	SAS/QC
Box Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
c Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
Individual Measurements Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
Mean and Range Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
Mean and Standard Deviation Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
np Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
p Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
u Chart	Tasks→Control Charts	SHEWHART	SAS/QC
Append Table	Tasks→Data	SQL	Base SAS
Compare Data	Tasks→Data	COMPARE	Base SAS
Create Format	Tasks→Data	FORMAT	Base SAS
Data Set Attributes	Tasks→Data	DATASETS	Base SAS
Delete Data Sets and Formats	Tasks→Data	DELETE	Base SAS
Download Data Files to PC	Tasks→Data	SQL	Base SAS
Filter and Sort	Tasks→Data	SQL	Base SAS
Query Builder	Tasks→Data	SQL	Base SAS
Random Sample	Tasks→Data	SURVEYSELECT	SAS/STAT
Rank	Tasks→Data	RANK	Base SAS
Sort Data	Tasks→Data	SORT	Base SAS
Split Columns	Tasks→Data	TRANSPOSE	Base SAS
Stack Columns	Tasks→Data	TRANSPOSE	Base SAS
Standardize Data	Tasks→Data	STANDARD	Base SAS
Table Analysis	Tasks→Data	FREQ	Base SAS
Transpose	Tasks→Data	TRANSPOSE	Base SAS
Upload Data to SAS Server	Tasks→Data	SQL	Base SAS
Import from SPSS	Tasks→Data	IMPORT	SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC File Formats
Import from JMP	Tasks→Data	IMPORT	SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC File Formats
Import from Stata	Tasks→Data	IMPORT	SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC File Formats
Characterize Data Wizard	Tasks→Describe	CONTENTS; UNIVARIATE; FREQ	SAS/STAT
Distribution Analysis	Tasks→Describe	UNIVARIATE	SAS/STAT
List Data	Tasks→Describe	PRINT	Base SAS
List Report	Tasks→Describe	REPORT	Base SAS
One-Way Frequencies	Tasks→Describe	FREQ	Base SAS
Summary Statistics	Tasks→Describe	MEANS	Base SAS
Summary Tables	Tasks→Describe	TABULATE	Base SAS
Area Plot	Tasks→Graph	GPLOT	SAS/GRAPH
Bar Chart	Tasks→Graph	GCHART	SAS/GRAPH
Bar-Line Chart	Tasks→Graph	GBARLINE	SAS/GRAPH
Box Plot	Tasks→Graph	GPLOT	SAS/GRAPH
Bubble Plot	Tasks→Graph	GPLOT	SAS/GRAPH
Contour Plot	Tasks→Graph	GCONTOUR	SAS/GRAPH
Create Map Feature Table	Tasks→Graph	GPROJECT	SAS/GRAPH
Donut Chart	Tasks→Graph	GCHART	SAS/GRAPH
Line Plot	Tasks→Graph	GPLOT	SAS/GRAPH
Map Graph	Tasks→Graph	GMAP	SAS/GRAPH
Pie Chart	Tasks→Graph	GCHART	SAS/GRAPH
Radar Chart	Tasks→Graph	GRADAR	SAS/GRAPH
Scatter Plot	Tasks→Graph	GPLOT; G3D	SAS/GRAPH
Surface Plot	Tasks→Graph	G3D	SAS/GRAPH
Tile Chart	Tasks→Graph	GTILE	SAS/GRAPH
Model Scoring	Tasks→Model Scoring	NONE	SAS Enterprise Miner
Canonical Correlation	Tasks→Multivariate	CANCORR	SAS/STAT
Cluster Analysis	Tasks→Multivariate	CLUSTER, TREE, FASTCLUS	SAS/STAT
Correlations	Tasks→Multivariate	CORR	Base SAS
Discriminant Analysis	Tasks→Multivariate	DISCRIM	SAS/STAT
Factor Analysis	Tasks→Multivariate	FACTOR	SAS/STAT
Principal Components	Tasks→Multivariate	PRINCOMP	SAS/STAT
Pareto Chart	Tasks→Pareto	PARETO	SAS/QC
Generalized Linear Models	Tasks→Regression	GENMOD	SAS/STAT
Linear Regression	Tasks→Regression	REG	SAS/STAT
Logistic Regression	Tasks→Regression	LOGISTIC	SAS/STAT
Nonlinear Regression	Tasks→Regression	NLIN	SAS/STAT
Life Tables	Tasks→Survival Analysis	LIFETEST	SAS/ETS
Proportional Hazards	Tasks→Survival Analysis	PHREG	SAS/ETS
ARIMA Modeling and Forecasting	Tasks→Time Series	ARIMA	SAS/ETS
Basic Forecasting	Tasks→Time Series	FORECAST	SAS/ETS
Create Time Series Data	Tasks→Time Series	TIMESERIES	SAS/ETS
Forecast Studio Create Project Wizard	Tasks→Time Series	Forecast Studio	SAS Forecast Server
Forecast Studio Open Project Wizard	Tasks→Time Series	Forecast Studio	SAS Forecast Server
Forecast Studio Override Wizard	Tasks→Time Series	Forecast Studio	SAS Forecast Server
Prepare Time Series Data	Tasks→Time Series	EXPAND	SAS/ETS
Regression Analysis of Panel Data	Tasks→Time Series	TSCSREG	SAS/ETS
Regression Analysis with Autoregressive Errors	Tasks→Time Series	AUTOREG	SAS/ETS
Update Library Metadata	Tools	METALIB	Base SAS
Assign Project Library	Tools	LIBNAME	Base SAS

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