For
this example, you are researching the trend of the Federal Reserve
rate from January 1962 to May 2010. The data is publicly available
from
http://www.federalreserve.gov, which is the website for the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System. (To help you complete this example, this data
is included in the sample data that is installed with the SAS Add-In
for Microsoft Office.)
After completing this
example, you will know how to perform these tasks:
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run a SAS analysis (specifically,
the Summary Statistics, Linear Regression, and Line Plot tasks) in
Microsoft Excel
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specify Excel data as the input
data source for a SAS task
-
select the location of the output
from a SAS task
-
change the properties of the generated
output
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quickly refresh your results by
including Visual Basic code in your Excel worksheet