Introduction to Correlation with SAS

Welcome to IT’s seminar on stat. packages

Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.edu

Weir 107

List of Statistical Packages

• SPSS

• SAS

• Mathematica

• MathWorks

• IMSL

Correlation with SAS

SASSAS (50 Copies available to the faculty and additional 50 copies are available for student use, IT has most of the SAS modules but not all). The cost for SAS is $75 per copy per year. To obtain a copy of SAS please send email to ccsam@olemiss.edu or

assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu

List of Statistical Packages

Mathematica

Mathematica (free copy for faculty, staff, and students). To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagename=mathematica.inc

List of Statistical Packages

Matlab

Matlab (available on willow and sweetgum)

Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will be mentioned briefly

List of Statistical Packages

IMSL

IMSL is a comprehensive package containing Math, stat., and special functions

IMSL is available only on sweetgum

IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran program

General Information

Email contact– Email your questions to ccsam@olemiss.edu

To download this and other materials visit:

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.

php?pagename=mathcamp.inc Please fill out the performance report and leave

your email address so we may contact you for follow up questions

General Information

This seminar covers SAS/Correlation SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are

available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus

We’ll look at an example of a correlation and an example of a regression using SAS

General Information

SAS performs statistical analysis SPSS performs statistical analysis and is

similar to SAS Mathematica’s main function is to perform

mathematical operations including statistics

MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and is available on willow and sweetgum

General Information

IT staff will assist users to access these packages. We also assist users to find the proper procedure to analyze their data. If you need assistance please send email to Sam Gordji at ccsam@olemiss.edu ,

assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu , or

mathadm@olemiss.edu

Today We’ll Cover

Creating a simple SAS program (*.log, *.lst)

Example of a simple correlation with SAS (corr.sas)

Another example of simple correlation with SAS (corr2.sas)