The SAS language is a computer

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used for statistical analysis, created by Anthony James Barr at

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.Barr & Goodnight, et al. 1976:"The SAS Staff". Attribution of contributions to SAS 72 and SAS 76. It can read in data from common spreadsheets and databases and output the results of statistical analyses in tables, graphs, and as RTF,

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and PDF documents. The SAS language runs under compilers that can be used on Microsoft Windows,

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, and various other

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and mainframe computers. The SAS System and World Programming System (WPS) are SAS language

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Overview of syntax

The language is

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domain specific computer language with many of the attributes of a command language. It is narrowly focused on statistical analysis of data. The language consists of two main types of blocks: DATA blocks that introduce new datasets and PROC blocks that perform procedures on them. A simple example is the following * COMMMENT Data TEMP; input X Y Z; datalines; 1 2 3 5 6 7 ; PROC PRINT DATA = TEMP; RUN; SAS scripts have the .sas extension

Legal status

SAS is developed and sponsored by the

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. A competitor, World Programming System has developed an interpreter and tools that allows execution of the SAS scripts.

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Overview of syntax

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