SAS/IML®  

Easily translate mathematical formulas into programs for data analysis, optimization and matrix computations with this powerful matrix programming language. You can apply SAS/IML software to tasks ranging from simple matrix manipulations to sophisticated statistical estimation techniques. It is also useful for tasks including root finding, numerical integration, linear programming, nonlinear optimization, bootstrap estimation and simulation. With this powerful matrix programming language software, you can concentrate on solving problems because activities such as memory allocation and dimensioning of matrices are performed automatically.

You can use the iml action on the SAS® Viya® platform to run traditional IML programs and to write custom parallel programs. 

 

The most recent release is SAS/IML 15.3.

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