About SAS/IML

SAS/IML software provides a powerful and flexible matrix programming language in a dynamic environment for programmers, statisticians and researchers.

The interface, SAS/IML Studio, provides interactive programming and exploratory data analysis. You can apply SAS/IML software to problems that range from simple matrix manipulations to estimation techniques as well as from linear programming to nonlinear optimization.

The most current releases are SAS/IML 12.1 and SAS/IML Studio 12.1.

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News

What's New in SAS/IML 12.1

SAS/IML 12.1 includes numerous changes and enhancements, such as:

• Syntax for defining default parameter values in user-defined modules
• Syntax for reading and writing SAS DATA sets whose names are not known until run time
• New statistical functions, subroutines, and modules, including those for finding Mahalanobis distance between observations, computing the vector or matrix norm of the argument, and generating a random sample
• Support for additional distributions and parameters for generating random samples with the RANDGEN subroutine

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SAS/IML Studio 12.1 is Now Available

SAS/IML Studio 12.1 includes new features such as:

• The availability of both a 64-bit edition and a 32-bit edition
• Support for the ODS HTML destination, which means that you can now display ODS statistical graphics. The ODS HTML destination is now the default destination.
• An improved ability to run multiple programs in parallel on computers with multiple or multicore processors
• Support for copying plots that are created in R into the ODS HTML and LISTING destinations

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Visit our general product information page on www.sas.com for more information.

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Free Online Documentation

Training

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Need help?

Curriculum consultants are available in the U.S. from 9-5 EST. Contact us at 1-800-333-7660 or e-mail.

International customers, please contact your country office.

Online Support Resources

This page contains online support resources that are specific to this product. Visit the Support page to access various self-help and assisted-help resources or submit a problem through the SAS Technical Support form.

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 Downloads         Highlighted Samples         Notes          Videos

Downloads

Hot Fixes by Release

• 9.21

Software Downloads

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Highlighted Samples

• Nonparametric estimation and comparison of survival curves from interval-censored data

Notes

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Videos

Calling R from SAS/IML Software By Rick Wicklin Air date: October 12, 2011

Calling SAS Procedures from SAS/IML Software By Rick Wicklin Air date: August 18, 2011

An Introduction to SAS/IML Studio By Rick Wicklin Air date: November 19, 2009

 

The DO Loop Rick Wicklin's blog about statistical programming with SAS/IML Software.

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