Home
Site Licenses
Computer Labs
UNIX Server
Direct Purchase Discounts

Statistical Software
Instructional Materials

What's New
Current Releases
Patches
Downloads

Resources
Documentation
Consulting
Software Developers' Links
"Third Party" Learning and Data Resources

BCCUMA

Datasets

Workshops

SAS, Release 9.2

OIT is now distributing The SAS System, Release 9.2 for Windows (32 or 64-bit) and Linux. Faculty, staff, and students at any UMass campus are eligible to get the software under the site license. Site licenses require an initial fee and an annual renewal fee. For current pricing, see OITs Site License information page.

SAS/Spectraview has been "retired", and is not included in SAS 9.2.  GIS Census Tract maps are not included in 9.2 at this time. They will be included later, when updated maps are available.SAS Online Tutor has been replaced by SAS e-Learning. However, SAS Online Tutor 1.2, released with SAS 9.1.3 can be used with SAS 9.2.

SAS 9.2 for Windows cannot be installed on Windows Vista Home, XP Home, or Windows 98/ME or earlier operating systems.

SAS 9.2 for Linux is supported only on specified Linux implementations (see Software Requirements, below). It may not install, or may not run under other Linux systems.

Licensing

If you wish to get SAS under the University of Massachusetts site license program, please contact the OIT Administrative Desk at 545-9730 or stop by A119 LGRC (Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). SAS is distributed on DVD or CD. Current SAS site license users can update to SAS 9.2 for $10 administrative/medium fee for DVD, $25 for CD.

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

Windows (32-bit)	Windows (64-bit)	Linux
Windows Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate OR	Windows Vista for x64 systems, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate editions	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OR
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2 or higher	Windows XP Professional for x64 Systems	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
File system support for long filenames is required.	File system support for long filenames is required.	32-bit versions of X11 libraries
Internet Explorer 6, SP2 or higher	Internet Explorer version 6 SP2 or higher	Firefox 2

Note that SAS 9.2 for Windows cannot be run on Window 2000 or earlier operating systems, on Windows XP or Vista Home Editions, or on Intel Itanium based 64-bit systems .

Technical Support and Consulting
OIT provides technical support for installation and license renewal only. Contact Eva Goldwater, 413-545-2949. Consulting on software usage and statistical questions is available through the Biostatistics Consulting Center . Online Documentation for SAS 9.2..

e-Learning
The site license includes SAS e-Learning, a series of self-paced, web-based learning modules covering topics from Beginning to Advanced SAS Programming techniques. SAS e-Learning requires registration. Registration information is available at OIT Administrative Desk, A119 LGRC.

Compatibility with SAS Release 8
Data files and formats catalogs created with SAS version 8.0 or higher under Windows can be used directly with SAS version 9.x under Windows.

What's New in SAS, Release 9.2
SAS/Spectraview is no longer available in version 9.2.  Complete list of features introduced in SAS 9.2 is at http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/whatsnew/62435/PDF/default/whatsnew.pdf.  The following are a few highlights.

FCMP Procedure
The FCMP procedure is new for 9.2. The SAS Function Compiler Procedure (FCMP) enables you to create, test, and store SAS functions and subroutines.

CORR Procedure
The new ID statement for the CORR procedure specifies one or more variables to identify observations in scatter plots and scatter plot matrices.

FREQ Procedure
TheFREQ procedure can now produce frequency plots, cumulative frequency plots, deviation plots, odds ratio plots, and kappa plots using ODS Graphics.

Graphics
In SAS 9.2, ODS Graphics is production, and over 50 procedures in SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, SAS/QC, and Base SAS have been modified to use it. Many new plots are now produced by these procedures, either by default or with the specification of procedure options.
SAS/GRAPH statistical graphics procedures provide a simple syntax for creating graphics commonly used in exploratory data analysis and for creating customized statistical displays. These new procedures include the SGPANEL, SGPLOT, and SGSCATTER procedures. For more information, see the SAS/GRAPH: Statistical Graphics Procedures Guide.

SAS/STAT
GLIMMIX, GLMSELECT, and QUANTREG are production with SAS 9.2 and are available on all platforms. The GLMSELECT procedure performs effect selection in the framework of general linear models. The QUANTREG procedure performs quantile regression. The GLIMMIX procedure analyzes generalized linear mixed models.
Bayesian capabilities introduced in experimental procedures BGENMOD, BLIFEREG, and BPHREG are now production in GENMOD, LIFEREG, and PHREG procedures 
The experimental MCMC procedure is a general purpose Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation procedure that is designed to fit a variety of Bayesian models. You specify a likelihood function for the data and a prior distribution for the parameters. PROC MCMC obtains samples from the corresponding posterior distributions, produces summary and diagnostic statistics, and saves the posterior samples in an output data set.

New Products
Your installation medium includes several optional products. Among them are SAS Power and Sample Size, SAS Stat Studio, SAS/GRAPH ODS Graphics Editor, SAS Enterprise Guide.