STAT 421 Computing: Getting Started

Computing for Statistics 421: Getting Started.

LAST UPDATE: Tue 2 Feb 99.

We will provide support through the web pages for computing with the following applications packages: SAS, Splus, and Matlab.

Any of these can be accessed from Owlnet. You may also be able to use them on a departmental or personal computer.

The examples we show will be directly relevant to homework exercises. You should be able to "ape" them to successfully complete your homework assignments.

I have successfully run Splus and SAS on long-eared using Xwin32 (obtainable from Mudd Hall) on my PC.

If you use Splus, I recommend the old version (so you can access a nice help window using the command help.start()). This is invoked on long-eared by typing "/usr/site/splus-3.4/bin/Splus".

I have discovered several nice introductory web pages on SAS which you may find helpful.

From Dr. David Lane in the Rice PSYCH Dept.
Three relevant sites from UT Austin: Unix SAS: Getting Started , Unix SAS: The DATA Step , and Unix SAS: The Proc Step .
A really nice SAS Intro in New Zealand.
Another SAS Tutorial at U. Maryland Baltimore County which is where I found this ....
University of Wisconsin SAS Intro.
This one at University of Vermont has some excellent basic material.
A really spiffy site at Purdue University that has nice pictures of all the SAS windows that pop up. Be sure to click on the "Let's go" button on the bottom of the page.
Two sites at Vanderbilt U: THE SAS DATA STEP and SAS PROCEDURES .
This site at Berkeley has links to Introduction to SAS and An Introduction to Using the SAS System.

Let me know if you find others or if any of these links go down dcox@stat.rice.edu

I hope to have links up to such Splus and Matlab tutorials very soon. Let me know if you find any.

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Send problems or suggestions to dcox@stat.rice.edu