Resources for SAS and STATA Users

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Resources for SAS Users

SAS Technical Support provides a broad array of guidance and resources.

GPPI Guides and Tutorials for SAS

The Basic Elements of SAS Programming (pdf) explains how to get started and perform routine computing tasks. A more detailed treatment of the basics is presented in a series of SAS tutorials. For more experienced users, the SAS Review (pdf) is a compilation of examples of routines frequently used by thesis students, including how to combine data files.

Each of the following tutorials illustrates how SAS can be applied to the statistical concepts covered in the Quantitative Methods I course.

• Introduction for Quantitative Methods I students
• Tutorial 1: The Basics
• Tutorial 2: Understanding Data
• Tutorial 3: SAS Programs, Program Logs, and Data Sets
• Tutorial 4: SAS Procedure Steps
• Tutorial 5: SAS Data Steps and How They Work
• Tutorial 6a: Measures of Central Tendency & Dispersion, Nominal and Ordinal Data
• Tutorial 6b: Measures of Central Tendency & Dispersion, Interval-Ratio Data
• Appendix A: SAS Operators
• Appendix B: The Output Delivery System (ODS)
• Appendix C: SAS System Options

External Links with Support for SAS Users

A number of universities maintain extensive instructional resources and general advice for SAS users. Among the most comprehensive and easiest to navigate sites are:

• Academic Technology Services at UCLA: Resources to help you learn and use SAS
• Carolina Population Center at UNC: Topics in SAS programming
• The Population Research Institute at Penn State: SAS help

Resources for Stata Users

Tips for Getting Started with Stata (pdf), by Dan Levy. (coming soon)

In addition to its online help feature, Stata Corporation provides many useful links to external Resources for Learning Stata.

Universities with excellent instructional resources for both beginner and advanced Stata users include:

• Academic Technology Services at UCLA: Resources to help you learn and use Stata
• Carolina Population Center at UNC: Stata Tutorial (The information on the site is based on Stata 9. Although we are using Stata 10, virtually everything covered should still be accurate. You can check the Stata website for Stata 10 enhancements.)
• Faculty Micro Resource Center, Boston College: An Introduction to Stata (pdf)
• The Population Research Institute at Penn State: Stata Help

Resources for SAS - Stata Transition

GPPI Guides and Tutorials for SAS-Stata Transition

Tips for transitioning from SAS to Stata are found in Stata & SAS Review: Reporting on Data (pdf) which identifies Stata counterparts for commonly used SAS commands and procedures.

External Links with Support for SAS-Stata Transition

Useful guides for learning how to do in Stata what you already know how to do in SAS:

A SAS User’s Guide to Stata, Carolina Population Center

Beginners Guide to Stata & SAS, University of Georgia