An Introduction to Windows SAS at WPI

About This Document

This document has two purposes:

In order to run SAS

  1. You must have a personal SAS environment. You need set up your personal SAS environment only once. You can then run SAS from any properly-configured pc.
  2. The pc you intend to use must be configured to run SAS. To see if it is, check the list of programs (accessed from the start menu). Note that the compupters in KH 207 are already configured to run SAS.
Instructions for setting up your personal SAS environment and for configuring a pc to run SAS are found at http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CCC/Help/Software/Installs/sas912.html.

To learn to use SAS, new users should consult the tutorials and An Introduction to SAS/INSIGHT I: Elementary Concepts, found at http://www.math.wpi.edu/Course_Materials/SAS/sas02_inI.html, and An Introduction to SAS/EIS, found at http://www.math.wpi.edu/Course_Materials/SAS/sas02_eis.html. These tutorials are designed to introduce the novice SAS user to two components of SAS statistical software: SAS/INSIGHT, a graphical environment for interactive data analysis, and SAS/EIS, a component of SAS that is used as an interface between the user and a set of SAS programs, called macros. Both programs are heavily used in statistics courses at WPI.

Users who want to do more with SAS/INSIGHT are invited to the continuation of the tutorial, An Introduction to SAS/INSIGHT II: Advanced Concepts, found at http://www.math.wpi.edu/Course_Materials/SAS/sas02_inII.html.

Where Next?

gif Introduction to SAS/EIS, which you'll use to run SAS macros (programs) for labs and specialized applications.

gif Introduction to SAS/INSIGHT I: Elementary Concepts. This is the minimal tutorial you should do to be familiar with the basics of SAS/INSIGHT, a graphically-oriented data analysis system

gif Introduction to SAS/INSIGHT II: Advanced Concepts. This tutorial will show you some of the more advanced features of SAS/INSIGHT


Joe Petruccelli < jdp@wpi.edu>
Last modified: Mon Oct 22 09:09:04 EDT 2007