SAS Help
SAS Availability at PRI
Windows: 806 Lab, Version 9.1
Unix/Linux: Israel, India, Italy Argentia (Linux); Greenland (Solaris). Version 9.1
Personal copies: Contact the Computer Store
Essential Reading
Getting Started with SAS
If you are new to SAS, begin here:
- Basic SAS (PC & UNIX)
- A short basic introduction to using SAS in the PC & the UNIX environment.
SAS Programming Topics
How to work in the Data Step, use SQL queries, control output
- Basic SAS (PC & UNIX)
- A short basic introduction to using SAS in the PC & the UNIX environment.
- Century Months
- How to calculate a Century month or get the year and month from a Century Month.
- Data Cleaning Techniques
- Garbage in -- Garbage out prevention techniques and coding examples
- Informats and Formats
- Introduction to the Data Step -- Part 1
- All numbers in parentheses refer to page numbers in the Second Edition of The Little SAS Book
- Longitudinal Data
- This powerpoint presentation covers commonly used coding techniques in SAS for processing longitudinal data.
- Merging
- Combining data from 2 or more files
- Recoding Variables using Formats, Functions and Macros
- Rollouts
- Generating multiple observations from one observation
- Rollups
- Collapsing multiple observations into one observation
- Useful SAS Tips
- These are useful SAS commands, procs, quirks, that are not often discussed but are requested/needed from time to time.
SAS Statistical Topics
- Missing Data Imputation
- On Thursday, February 16, 2006, David Johnson gave a presentation about missing data and data imputation. This handout describes various software packages that handle missing data.
- UnifyPow
- Sample size and power analysis macro from Cleveland Clinic
- SAS Imputation (2006 version)
- Using PROC MI and PROC MIANALYZE in SAS
- SAS Imputation (2007 version)
- Missing data imputation using SAS software
- SAS-Callable Sudaan
- SUDAAN is a single program consisting of a family of procedures used to analyze data from complex sample surveys and other observational and experimental studies involving repeated measures and cluster-correlated data. PRI supplies a version of SUDAAN that runs as an add-on to SAS
- Missing Data Imputation
- Missing data imputation methods, software and tips
- Raking (how to create a weight variable)
- Raking (how to create a weight variable)
- SAS/GIS
- (GIS_RD_02-44) Brief overview of the SAS GIS product
- Proportion Tests
- Testing proportions in summary data
- Multiple Imputation with SAS (806 Oswald, from Sep 28, 2007 12:00 PM to Sep 28, 2007 01:00 PM)
- Missing data imputation using SAS software
Useful Links

