Statistics & Data Analysis
The SAS System provides extensive statistical capabilities, including tools for both specialized and enterprise-wide analytical needs. Research institutes, laboratories, market research firms, universities, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, banks, and insurance companies can all take advantage of these statistical capabilities. From traditional analysis of variance to exact methods to statistical visualization techniques, the SAS System provides the tools required to analyze data and help your organization make the right decisions.
Statistical Analysis
The SAS System includes a wide range of statistical analyses, including analysis of variance, regression analysis, categorical data analysis, multivariate analysis, survival analysis, psychometric analysis, cluster analysis, and nonparametric analysis.
Statistical Interface
The Analyst Application is a data analysis tool that provides easy access to basic statistical analyses. The production release of the Analyst Application is included in Version 8 on Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX workstations, OpenVMS Alpha, OpenVMS VAX, and OS/2.
Exploratory Data Analysis
SAS software includes a dynamic tool for visualizing your data to uncover trends, spot outliers, and gain an understanding you might not derive from other analytical methods. You can explore data through a variety of interactive graphs and analyses linked across multiple windows as well as describe data distributions and fit explanatory models.
Matrix Programming Language
SAS/IML software provides a powerful and flexible matrix programming language in a dynamic, interactive environment for programmers, statisticians, and researchers. You can use the SAS System for data manipulation and statistical analysis, then employ the SAS/IML matrix language for more specialized analyses and exploration.
Matrix Programming Interface
SAS/IML Workshop is a graphical user interface and extension of SAS/IML software that enables you to explore data interactively using standard statistical graphics and tables. IML Workshop provides an integrated development environment for writing, debugging, and executing IML programs. IML Workshop also implements the IMLPlus programming language, which is an enhanced version of the IML programming language. IMLPlus provides new language features such as the ability to call SAS procedures and external C/Fortran/Java functions. IML Workshop requires a PC running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Guided Data Analysis
SAS software offers guided (prompt-driven) data analysis for engineering and research applications. Analysts are led through basic methods of statistical analysis that can be represented graphically.
Market Research
The 6.12 Release of the SAS System includes a production version of the Market Research Application, a point-and-click interface to analyses commonly used in market research such as conjoint analysis, discrete choice analysis, and multidimensional preference mapping.