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ACCESS TO SAS

Most of the Colleges in the US and Canada provide SAS access to the current students, alumni or visitors. Contact the Mathematics or Statistics department and see whether SAS is available to you! 

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Two Affordable Ways to Gain Access to SAS

Learning SAS without the software is like learning to swim without the water (okay, maybe not that bad, but you get my point). Below are the two affordable ways to gain access to SAS:

1. College Computer Lab

Most of the Colleges in the US and Canada provide SAS access to their current students, alumni or visitors. Follow the steps below and see if SAS is available to you:

• Contact the Mathematics or Statistics department in your local University and ask whether SAS is available for their students/alumni/visitors.

• If you’re a current student and the service is available to you, that’s great! If you’re an alumni or a visitor, contact the Alumni office or the libraries/computer lab to inquire how you can have access to the software.

Pros: Hey it's FREE (or nearly free)!

Cons: You can only use it in their computer lab.


2. SAS® OnDemand for Professionals (Learning Version) NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Another way to gain access to SAS is to purchase the license of the learning version of SAS® OnDemand for Professionals.

http://support.sas.com/learn/ondemand/professionals/

The 6-month license is available at $199 (No, we are not an affiliate). Considering the next complete version will probably costs you up to 4 figures, $199 is actually a pretty good deal.

Pros:

• You will have a fairly complete SAS system to work with. The package also comes with a set of data from a series of SAS courses and books. If you also purchase, say, the SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9 (US$ 129), you will have access to all the practice data within the SAS system.
  

Cons:

• The learning version is NOT capable of reading in your personal data. You will NOT be able to perform programming tasks such as:
  
  - creating your own library;
  - creating a dataset with your own data using the dataline statement and
  - importing/exporting the data from external sources such as excel or text files.
  
  You can only use the datasets provided in the system.
  

3. SAS University Edition

SAS University Edition is recently released (2014) and it is free to the public. It is a fairly powerful software that can be run on PC, Mac or Linux. 

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