For Students on Campus:

1. SAS version 8 (or 9) 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 version 8 or 9. 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.

For Students off Campus:

1. Use DACS: the Distributed Academic Computing Services.
2. Use VPN: the Virtual Private Network.
3. The services listed above allow you to access and use SAS remotely. I encourage you to explore these services first, especially, the DACS. If you run into difficulties with both of them, you can borrow SAS CDs and install a copy of SAS on your own machine too. First, you need to fill and sign the Registration Form and mail it back to

Timothy Clough
Statistics Department
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, IN 47907

or fax it to Tim (1-765-494-0558). Second, you will receive a set of SAS CDs you can use to install SAS on your own computer. Please follow the installation hints given above. Third, as agreed upon by you in the registration form, you need to return the CDs to Purdue by mailing them back to Tim during the semester.

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; in the evening, help is provided Monday-Thursday 7-9pm in PHYS 117. For details, please visit Statistical Consulting Service (SCS) . Off-campus students can get help by email and phone call. The number is (765)496-8250 and the email address is stat-help@stat.purdue.edu.
2. You can also get help from instructor and TA in office hours or by phone or email.