SAS/Stat software

Department of Experimental Statistics

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S-Plus

You can purchase a one-year license for S-Plus for $10. Contact Ms. Roserine White, Ag. Admin. Room 161, (rbwhite@lsu.edu, 225-578-8303) to make arrangements to get S-Plus.

Minitab

You can purchase a license of Minitab for $120. Contact Ms. Roserine White, Ag. Admin. Room 161, (rbwhite@lsu.edu, 225-578-8303) to get Mintab.

SAS Links

SAS for Faculty/Staff Use

SAS is available for use by LSU faculty and staff members. Licenses are paid for annually, and the cost is $100 for the first license in a department, station, or organization, and $50 for each additional license. (Note: this fee is subject to change without notice because SAS does increase the fee we pay.) The license year runs from March 15 through March 14, but SAS will continue to function for 90 days after it expires, or until mid-June.

The fee is not prorated and billing is done in late October or early November for the current license year. Departments will be billed for all their licenses at that time.

Any copy of SAS installed in an LSU computer must be paid for at the faculty/staff rate, even if the computer is used by students. Students cannot pay for SAS at the student rate and install it on an LSU computer.

Faculty and staff who install SAS on their LSU computer may also install it on their personal computer at home for no additional fee.

We are currently in the process of changing our license, which will allow us to distribute Linux SAS. Our Windows version will include additional components.

SAS for Student Use

LSU students can obtain copies of SAS for their personal use on their computer at home, either for doing classwork or for analyzing their research data. Students are licensed to use SAS only as long as they are a student at LSU.

Cost is $25 per year for all or part of a license year; the cost is not prorated. Our license year runs from March 15 through March 14, but SAS will continue to function through mid-June. If you wish to continue using SAS after it is due to expire, you must pay an additional $25 per license year. Payments are applied to the license year beginning in the year the check was written. For example, a check written any time in 2004 is applied toward the March 15, 2004-March 14, 2005 license year. The $25 is a license fee; you have paid for permission to use SAS. You have not paid for a CD set and you have not paid for any documentation.

Students cannot pay for a student license to install SAS on an LSU computer. Copies of SAS installed on LSU computers must be paid for by the department at the faculty/staff price.

Choose the Custom rather than Default installation.
Choose the following components: Base, Stat, Graph.
For 4085: also Assist, Insight, FSP, and IML.
For 7003, 7004, 7005: also Assist, Insight, and Enterprise Guide.
For 7013, 7014, 7015: also Insight.
For 7034, 7036: also IML.
For 7037: also Insight and IML.
For 7087: also IML and QC.
You do not need to install any of the sample data sets/libraries.

Getting SAS

Contact Ms. Roserine White, Ag. Admin. Room 161, (rbwhite@lsu.edu, 225-578-8303) to get your name on the waiting list to check out the SAS CD set.
You will be notified by telephone or e-mail when it is your turn to get the CD set and you will pick up the CD set in Ag. Admin. Room 161.
Before you take the CD set, you must complete a license agreement form. If you are a student, you must pay $25 either when you reserve the CD set or when you pick it up.
You may keep the CD set no longer than 24 hours unless you make special arrangements to keep it longer.
Return the SAS CD set to Ag. Admin. Room 161.