For Students on Campus:

1. SAS version 9.1.2 is available on the PCs in ITaP labs.
2. Purdue's SAS license allows any student and staff member to get a copy of SAS 9.1.2. You can check out SAS CDs from the staff in STEW B-14 (please bring your Purdue ID card) and install SAS on your own machine. For more information, go to the ITap website.

Installation hints: The whole SAS package needs more than 500MB disk space. The part used in Stat514 takes about 300MB. To keep your SAS to "only" 300MB: 1). Ignore the CDs titled "Online Doc" and "Client-Side Components". 2). Say "No" when asked if you want to install help in "Simple HTML". 3). Choose Custom Installation and only choose the following components: Base SAS, Core of the SAS system, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/QC, and SAS/STAT.

SAS: A Short Course

This is a link to an introductory SAS course you can quickly go through to get started with SAS. Below is a very popular SAS introductory book I want to recommend


Applied Statistics and the SAS programming Language, Fourth Edition, 
by Ronald P. Cody and Jeffrey K. Smith
Prentice Hall

SAS Help in Person

1. The Statistics Department provides a software consultant in MATH G-175, Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm. For details, please visit Statistical Consulting Service (SCS) .
2. You can also get help from instructor and TA in office hours or by phone or email.