What is SAS?

I have done my Bsc, planning to change my field and going in for SAS. "SAS which is use in clinical trials and research work."!


I have nil knowlege about it.Can someone guide me esp those ppl who are in SAS clinical trials work, how do i go about it ? what are the prerequisitis to learn SAS ? Where can i get my self trained ?


esp online . It would be great help.

What is SAS?
SAS Institute Inc., headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, USA, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig. SAS was originally an acronym for Statistical Analysis System but for many years has been used as an arbitrary tradename (for which the company has received trademark protection in the US and abroad) to refer to the company as a whole, its products having long since broadened beyond the statistical analysis sphere.








Its main and original product was the SAS software package used in statistical analysis, consisting of numerous modules which ran on IBM mainframe computers. In addition to the usual mainframe practice of writing and submitting programs in batch, SAS offered the option, somewhat novel at the time, of a windowed programming environment, where the program being written or edited appeared in one window, the program output appeared in another window, and the program log appeared in a third window.





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Reply:thank u ngina, the link was a great help. Report Abuse

Reply:Use the SAS website tutorials, the UCLA SAS explanations and a book called "The Little SAS Book".