Introduction: What Is SAS?
SAS is a modular, integrated, and hardware-independent system of statistical software. It is a particularly powerful tool for social scientists because it allows them to easily perform a myriad of statistical analyses that might be required in the course of conducting research. SAS is comprehensive enough to perform the most sophisticated multivariate analyses (i.e., multiple dependent variables), but is also easy to use so that undergraduates can also perform basic analyses after only a short period of instruction.
In a sense, SAS can be viewed as a library of prewritten statistical algorithms. By submitting a short SAS program, you can access a prewritten procedure and use it to analyze a set of data. For example, ...
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