SAS Documentation at UMBC
Probably the most daunting prospect of learning SAS is the massive amount
of documentation available from SAS. If you don't let this discourage you
then you will find that SAS is not that hard to learn.
UMBC maintains a complete set of documentation in ECS 019. This is available
for short-term borrowing (under 2 hours). ECS 019 is generally open 7 days a
week and 24hours a day during the semester. You must leave your UMBC ID or
License to borrow a manual.
Other Sources of Documentation
- SAS Institute
- SAS has descriptions of all manuals it sells listed by product. From this
you can determine what manual you need and even order it.
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Univ of Wisconsin, Introduction to SAS
- Brian Yandell
of the Univ of Wisconsin has written a very nice Introduction to SAS.
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North Carolina State Sas Manual
- This is a gopher-based set of text files describing how to use SAS
at NC State University. This is written for Unix using the SAS Display
Manager.
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Introduction to SAS from Virginia Tech University
- Virginia Tech University has produced a 75 page manual. Note while much
of the information is applicable to any version of SAS this was written for
SAS under the IBM CMS operating system.
- This is a gopher site with a SAS manual written at NC State in 1992.
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Introduction to SAS/Graph from the University of Saskatchewan
- A basic introduction to using SAS/Graph with demonstrations of types of
graphs available.
SAS Support
- UMBC SAS-users mailing list
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UMBC has created a SAS mailing list named SAS-USERS@LISTS.UMBC.EDU
where questions on sas can be asked and where changes and announcements for
sas will be posted. We strongly recommend that people using sas subscribe to
this list. This can be done by sending mail to:
majordomo@lists.umbc.edu
In the message body add the line subscribe sas-users.
Once you have subscribed you can send questions to the list through the
address sas-users@lists.umbc.edu.
- Contacting SAS Technical Support
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UMBC does have a SAS technical support contract in place. If you have a
problem that you cannot solve please send a message to
systems@umbc.edu and include:
- A detailed description of the problem.
- The sas program file you are using.
- The command you used to run the program and the machine you ran it from.
- SAS FAQ and SAS Notes
- SAS Technical support has many technical reports on-line for viewing
through the WWW. In addition SAS has a
Searchable Problem
Database available.
Author - Jack Suess
Created - 1/15/96