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Prerequisites

None, but familiarity with SAS under UNIX and/or SAS for Windows is assumed

Outline

• SAS software history
• SAS strengths compared to other statistics software
• new features
  • longer variable names and character values
  • case sensitivity
  • ODS -- Output Delivery System (HTML or ASCII output)
  • Results window
  • Explorer window
• problems and concerns
  • no ASCII window in SAS under UNIX
  • SAS data sets and catalogs not backward compatible
• Documentation and URLs for further information

Objectives

Students will be able --

--to list three new features of SAS software
--to switch back and forth between ASCII and HTML output
--to program SAS Version 7, 8 or 9 to read and write Version 6.12 SAS data sets

Class Outline
SAS Under UNIX (ISD Document)
SAS for Microcomputers (ISD Document)

IBM PCs running Windows, with access to SAS software
Overhead projector connected to instructor computer station