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What's New in SAS SAS 9.2 [1.97 MB PDF download] SAS 9.1 SAS 8.2

Key Highlights of SAS^® 9.2

Visit the SAS 9.2 resource page for an overview of product enhancements as well as a list of related documentation and references. SAS 9.2 brings more analytical products and graphical capabilities to Base SAS as well as updates to other products such as SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/CONNECT and others. Many enhancements are a direct response to requests from our existing customer base. Learn more

[SAS 9.2] Now that the RX family of functions is being retired, the Regular expression (RX) set of functions and CALL routines have been removed from the documentation. They have been replaced by a set of Perl Regular Expression (PRX) Functions and CALL routines, which have been available in previous versions of SAS, and which provide superior functionality.
The following table lists the RX functions and CALL routines and their PRX replacements

RX Function	PRX Replacement
CALL RXCHANGE	CALL PRXCHANGE
CALL RXFREE	CALL PRXFREE
CALL RXSUBSTR	CALL PRXSUBSTR
RXMATCH	PRXMATCH
RXPARSE	PRXPARSE

Learn how to add text between the output in an ODS HTML file.

The ODS TEXT= statement is used to insert text into an output file. When using this statement with SAS® 9.1.3, you must give the output destination (such as HTML, PDF, RTF, and so on), for example, ODS HTML TEXT='text-string'. When using this statement with SAS 9.2, however, you do not have to specify the output destination, for example, ODS TEXT='text-string'. Learn more

Ten Reasons Why a Statistician Should Update to SAS® 9.2

SAS 9.2 has been available for several months now. Many ask why they should upgrade to the newest release. This article lists ten great features that you will want if you are a statistician who uses SAS. A few of those reasons include updates to generalized linear mixed models, SAS/IML Studio, quantile regression and much more. Why should you upgrade?

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Sorting Text Without Regard to Case in SAS 9.2    »

PROC SORT is a frequently used Base SAS procedure with simple syntax. Unfortunately, anomalies in the key variables, especially mixed case character values, can present special challenges. Sort them out with this tip.


Eliminate duplicate observations from a large data set without sorting   »

PROC SORT with the NODUP or NODUPKEY option provides a way to eliminate duplicate observations from a data set. However, with a very large data set, PROC SORT may not be an efficient use of resources. This sample provides an alternative using PROC SUMMARY.

Bayesian Capabilities   »

Bayesian analysis techniques are now available in both SAS/STAT 9.1.3 and SAS/STAT 9.2.
PROC BGENMOD was introduced for SAS 9.1.3. (experimental procedure). Now, BGENMOD capabilities have been rolled into the GENMOD procedure for SAS 9.2 and are now production software. The BAYES statement produces Bayesian analysis via Gibbs sampling for most of the statistical analyses provided by the GENMOD procedure. This release also includes deletion diagnostics and plots for GLMs and GEEs, zero-inflated Poisson regression models, and AIC and QIC model fit statistics. Martingale residuals are now production. The LSMEANS statement now produces inverse link estimates.

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