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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. The Five Main Parts of SAS and SPSS
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While SAS and SPSS offer hundreds of functions and procedures, they fall into five main categories:
1.
Data input and management statements that help you read, transform, and organize your data.
2.
Statistical and graphical procedures to help you analyze data.
3.
An output management system (OMS) to help you extract output from statistical procedures for processing in other procedures or to let you customize printed output. SAS calls theirs the Output Delivery System, Output Delivery System, SAS(ODS), SPSS calls theirs the Output Management System,Output Management System, SPSS (OMS).
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A macro language to help you use sets of the above commands repeatedly.
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A matrix language to add new algorithms (SAS/IMLIML SAS product and SPSS MatrixMatrix, SPSS product).