The features provided by SAS/STAT software are in addition to the features provided by Base SAS software. Many data management and reporting capabilities you will need are part of Base SAS software. Refer to SAS Language Reference: Concepts, SAS Language Reference: Dictionary, and the Base SAS Procedures Guide for documentation of Base SAS software.
SAS DATA Step
The DATA step is your primary tool for reading and processing data in the SAS System. The DATA step provides a powerful general purpose programming language that enables you to perform all kinds of data processing tasks. The DATA step is documented in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.
Base SAS Procedures
Base SAS software includes many useful SAS procedures. Base SAS procedures are documented in the Base SAS Procedures Guide. The following is a list of Base SAS procedures you may find useful:
- CORR
compute correlations
- RANK
compute rankings or order statistics
- STANDARD
standardize variables to a fixed mean and variance
- MEANS
compute descriptive statistics and summarizing or collapsing data over cross sections
- TABULATE
print descriptive statistics in tabular format
- UNIVARIATE
compute descriptive statistics
