Learn More about SAS: Recommended Sites & Resources

Learning to Use SAS

SAS Fundamentals from NIH SAS Fundamentals course from the National Institutes of Health. This is a 99-page simple, self-study course. Although it was written in 2001, the basics of data steps, proc steps, naming conventions, sorts and other fundamentals have not changed.

Statistics Using SAS

Using SAS for item analysis and test construction, a fairly detailed page by Dr. Alex Yu, provides an explanation of not just how to compute Cronbach's alpha using SAS but also other,related information, such as means of handling missing data.

Learn more about SAS programming

Examples, from the book SAS programming by example, provide some interesting twists on SAS. This is more for programmers than the casual users, who probably are not familiar with the concept of a table look-up, much less looking for how to do one in SAS.

Last updated: Monday, July 13, 2009, 16:46PM PDT