SAS Academic Premier Program

Academic Computing has licensed a number of SAS software products for campus-wide teaching and research use. The products are available for Sun Solaris, HP/UX, and Windows operating systems and include:

 

Base SAS: must be installed to run most of other SAS products

SAS ACCESS: for accessing data used by other software packages. Most of the popular database software is supported

SAS AF: for writing interactive SAS applications

SAS ASSIST: menu-driven front end to SAS

SAS CALC: spreadsheet application

SAS CONNECT: connects computers running the SAS system

SAS EIS: for developing and using custom executive information systems

SAS ETS: for analysis of time-series data, forecasting, and business planning

SAS FSP:  for interactive data entry, editing, and retrieval

SAS GIS: a graphic information system for analyzing data with spatial relationships

SAS GRAPH: produces plots, charts, and maps

SAS IML: Interactive Matrix Language, a programming language with an extensive set of mathematical and matrix operators

SAS INSIGHT: a tool for visual analysis of data

SAS LAB: for guided statistical analysis

SAS OR: provides procedure for project management and operations research

SAS QC:  provides procedure for statistical quality improvement

SAS SPECTRAVIEW: a tool for analysis and visualization of 3-dimentional data

SAS STAT: has procedures for most types of statistical analysis

SAS TUTOR: an online tool for learning the SAS system

 

SAS is currently installed on all PCs in PAC 493. We will soon install it on PCs in other labs and smart classrooms.

 

To install SAS on your office PC:

  1. Quick Install From Academic Computing Server
  2. Complete Installation Instructions (requires Acrobat Reader)

 

If you need help installing SAS, please contact Dixie Vaught @ 206-7350 (vaught.dixie@uis.edu)

Online Tutorial

Online Documentation Java enhanced version, Simple text version