Statistical Programming Documentation

Vendors for statistical software used widely on campus provide well-organized manuals in electronic form that can be searched (or browsed online) for statistical terminology or commonly used commands.

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Vendor supplied documentation
SAS v9 Online Documentation (large, comprehensive) It's recommended that learners first limit their browsing to SAS Procedures Guide and SAS/STAT Users Guide - (found alphabetically looking at the left frame) SPSS Manuals (moderately large, in PDF format, available for on-campus download) S-Plus (Insightful Corp.) Mathematica (Wolfram Inc.’s Mathworld) (large)

SAS v8.2 (locally mirrored) Online Documentation (BU Only) Not currently available

SAS Example Code library

Other Helpful Documentation

 * Raynald's SPSS Tools
 * Unix Help from
 * BU or
 * other
 * Using SSH File Transfer
 * Concise Glossary for SAS
 * Matlab Toolbox online documentation