Date:         Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:10:44 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Need help regarding SUDAAN
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> From: sharada
> Can anyone please recommend me a book that explains this
> programming language (SUDAAN) with examples? I have the
> language manual from RTI but did not find it easy to follow...

Sudaan comes in two flavors:
* Stand-along, meaning you execute sudaan.exe
  and work in its program development environment
* SAS-callable: you execute sas.exe
  work in sas program development environment
  and call Sudaan procedures
  just like SAS procedures:

proc descript data = page29 filetype = sas design = wor ;
              weight wt;
              nest   strata;
              totcnt fpc;
              var    ue91 ;
              print  nsum total setotal mean semean deffmean ;
              setenv colwidth = 15;
              setenv decwidth = 3;
run;
proc ratio data = page29 filetype = sas design = wor;
           weight wt;
           nest   strata;
           totcnt fpc;
           numer  ue91;
           denom  lab91;
run;

running SAS-callable Sudaan
requires adding these modifications to (one of)
your SASv9.cfg files:

-HELPREGISTER 'SUDAAN Help' 'C:\Program
Files\SUDAAN\Release901\Help\SUDAAN.HTM'

/* Setup the SAS System load image search paths definition */
-PATH          (
                "!sasroot\core\sasexe"
...
                "!sasext0\stat\sasexe"
                "!sasext0\toolkt\sasexe"
               'C:\Program Files\SUDAAN\Release901\SAS9Ind'
               )

Ronald J. Fehd, IT Spec
team lead: Office of Statistical Software
           and Knowledge Worker Support
HelpDesk Level 3: SAS
CDC SAS site representative