Several tools have been developed at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation (in pdf format) to explore alternatives to programming offered by SAS: SAS Analyst: general guidelines to acquaint the user with this environment, its terminology, and its commands. A tutorial has also been developed to illustrate how to use Analyst to perform the same basic data analyses shown in the "Using SAS Programming To." section of this website. SAS Insight: a manual to introduce the user to this component of SAS Assist (another menu-driven interface to the SAS System). Another general tutorial is also available from SAS System Help. Home VId. Data Processing: RETAIN Statement END OF TUTORIAL