SAS is celebrating the International Year of Statistics. Thinking about the importance of statistics in our lives and in my professional life, takes me for a moment down memory lane.
I came to SAS a LONG time ago because I had a Master’s degree in Statistics and SAS wanted someone to help write the statistics documentation. They picked me!
Now, to put things in perspective, the SAS User's Guide at that time was one book, which contained all of the documentation for SAS. There was no distinction between SAS/STAT and Base SAS as there is today.
SAS is so much more powerful today. There are 102 chapters in the SAS/STAT User’s Guide and the authors of the analytics software are the developers themselves. Only they have the depth of knowledge to explain how each procedure works.
We are very proud of the statistics and analytics expertise that we have at SAS. No wonder we are celebrating the International Year of Statistics. We are the analytics company, after all!