SAS Tips and Links

• SAS v9.13 Online Docs (including user's guides)    (other versions)
• Phil Spector's "An Introduction to the SAS System"
• Books: Amazon Of these The Little SAS book: A Primer is good for a quick general start; for more details you will need to buy specific books for each topic.
• CMU SAS Mini-Workshop (5/13/09)
• Version 9 SAS/STAT User's Guide
• SAS Institute:   technical support     Syntax Index     Samples and Notes     Audio Flash lessions     e-Newsletters     code samples
• Nice SAS graphics blog
• Gary Klein's SAS notes/tutorial
• All about data/input statements
• Sample code to read data with tabs and/or column names in first line

      infile "mydata.dat" firstobs=2 delimiter='09'X;
      /* firstobs=2 skips the first line which contains the column headers */
      /* the delimeter option specifies tab delimited data */
      

• A function to produce means plots or 2- or 3-way interaction plots in R using the results from SAS GLIMMIX/MIXED/GLM called SASIAPlot.R is described at RTips.html.

• WHERE vs IF
• PROC SQL
• Penn State Population Research Institute help (excellent!)
• MIT SAS help
• UCLA SAS Learning Modules   ( more )
• UNC SAS help (Broad overview with examples)
• Indiana U. SAS under Unix
• Indiana U. SAS under Windows
• U. Mich SAS for Windows/Unix
• U Bristol SAS under Unix
• System Options
• SAS Macro Facility
• Documented Problems and Fixes
• Debugging (pdf)
• Intro to ods graphics
• Friendly's Page - graphics, macros, categorical analysis
• Debugging and more
• High resolution graphics and printing in SAS batch mode
• High resolution boxplots
• Multinomial Logit Models (IU)     Mine:   MNLogit.q     MNLogit.dat     MNLogit.sas     MNLogit.lst     MNLogit.ps
• Hierarchical models / Proc Mixed:   Singer's paper (pdf)     Tips and Strategies for SAS PROC MIXED/GLIMMIX/NLMIXED/HPMIXED     Primer on biological rhythm analysis with PROC MIXED

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