SAS Tutorial

SAS Tutorial

All of you know that business analytics plays an important role in each and every organization in the world. SAS is a statistical analytical system that can be used for analysis, data management, predictive modeling, and data visualization. it is developed by the SAS Institute for advanced analytics and it originated from North Carolina State University from 1966 to 1976 after that SAS institute developed with statistical features in the 1980s . Through the analysis, it helps to make a better decision and find out the solution for our business.SAS is programming software and it has two major steps that are data step and procedure step. it is mainly used for medical purposes but it is applicable for all filed and its university edition is free for download.

Why Do We Need to Learn SAS?

• If the students decided that the business filed is a major domain for the future it helps to achieve the goals.
• SAS is a comfortable programming language it can be easily picked up by anyone.
• It helps us to make a market leader because it provides a brand new generation of business intelligence.
• It is a fourth-generation language and it provides GUI(Graphical User Interface) and an easy way to access multiple applications.
• It has a drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy for you to create better statistical models quickly.

Applications of SAS

Generally, SAS is used for statistical analysis and decision making. Here I am introducing some major applications that are Multivariate analysis, Business Intelligence, Predictive analysis and creating safe drugs, Clinical Research and Forecasting.

Multivariate Analysis: It is the analysis of various statistical variables of an outcome at the same time Ex:- Analysis of stock in a hypermarket.
Business Intelligence: In this application, it makes the study of the entire enterprise business it make decisions for future growth by data analysis and data mining, etc.
Predictive Analysis: It is a prediction method to improve our business. Sometimes the business outcome is constant over a couple of years predictive analysis helps to improve the business.

Creating Safe drugs, Clinical Research, and Forecasting

In the medical field diagnosis, forecasting, prescribing medicines are very important. SAS plays a vital role in the medical field and it supports the clinical research support system.SAS helps monitor whether a patient is at risk. It helps us the doctor find out the improvement condition of a patient In detail if the patient is diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. It is one of the major diseases so, we have to monitor each and every detail of patient at any time. First, we have to take some major results and we have made analysis with this software it helps us to find out the condition of a patient of each day. Some time if the patient needs liver transplantation or not. Through the analysis of the patient's details we can find out and helps the doctor prescribing the medicines. Sometimes it helps for the Forecasting of diseases.

Pre-requisites

As a student and reader, you need some knowledge about the concepts of business analysis then only help us to make effective results in analysis.

Target Audience

SAS is very easy to learn without prior knowledge of programming because it has only two steps that data step and procedure step. In the data step, we have to explain the data we are giving and the procedure step it helps for the execution. Mainly it used for business analysis in various fields. For example, it is used in the medical filed for diagnosis, prediction of diseases and prescribed medicines and it can be used in various filed for the data analysis, predictive analysis for business growth and Business Intelligence.