SAS Corner

SAS Analyst

By Garvii Thomas, Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant

It has been brought to my attention that many of our students are not aware of the SAS Analyst tool that is available to them.  This is a tool that is not only menu driven but also allows the user to view and learn the SAS code for the routine that was just committed.  It is quick and easy and covers most, if not all, the process that a graduate student or professor may want to accomplish in SAS.  Just as in the SAS editor window data can be accessed either from an existing library or from an external data set.  The quick icons include 2Dscatter plots, linear regression, histograms, one-way ANOVA, correlations, and sub-setting a dataset.  The drop down menus also allows you to accomplish the former mentions items plus many more advance statistical techniques such as repeated measures ANOVA, principle component analysis, and logistic regression. Under the Statistics menu option there is also an index that contains over 170 statistical techniques and options that are available. 

To open the Analyst tool click on the menu bar "Solution-Analysis-Analysis." Then go to "File-and or menu-Open by SAS name."  Choose the library you data is stored and then open it.  The following dataset (Fitness) is taken from the Sasuser library to illustrate some of the many uses of the Analyst tool.  Click on "edit-mode" to change the spreadsheet from being browse only to edit so that are able to make change to the dataset.

Let look at a simple regression output and the code that it generates:

This is the code that procedure generate.  It could be used as a learning tool to writing you own code in the SAS Editor window.

Once again an expansion of this and other topics will be discussed in the in the SAS short course series offered by the Research and Statistical Support: www.unt.edu/rss .