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I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares – SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.

I’m working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Terabytes, 50M+ records). Traditional ways (SQL) are limiting and desktop statistical softwares like R and Stata aren’t suitable for such large data analysis. Other contenders (Matlab) don’t seem to be in the same league.

So, its time to take a deep dive into SAS.

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I’m looking for some advice to create a learning plan…

Good books

• I like learning by examples and found this on Amazon – Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer’s Guide by Ronald P. Cody)
• I know some R, so this might be interesting – SAS and R: Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics by Ken Kleinman and Nicholas J. Horton
• Others?

Good tutorials

• I like video tutorials with examples e.g Statistics202.
• I also like tutorials from a programmer’s perspective better
• Anything for SAS out there?

Good blogs

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