SAS/STAT

What do you like best?

easy to query using the interface provided. SAS is supposed to provide reliable statistical results and that is the main reason that many government agencies rely on SAS than other statistical software in professional environments. I primarily used SAS for survival analysis in my graduate studies and I found SAS to be powerful software tool that makes it easier to program and obtain the necessary standard results without extra work.

What do you dislike?

Unlike other statistical programming languages like R, SAS lacks customization on inputs as well as outputs. If anybody needs to do data wrangling and do advanced statistical computing, they might find SAS limited due to the restricted environment that SAS working. I used the university edition of SAS but if you an individual looking to work in SAS, it might be expensive for a statistical tool to keep for personal use.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Professional statistical analytical software suite trusted by many government agencies. If you are a student you might have already come across SAS in many undergraduate and graduate courses. If you are a professional working in data analytics and statistical consulting firms, this is a good reliable option to make professional statistical reports.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Hypothesis testing, survival analysis. The results are adequate and less coding needed than the other alternatives. The graphs and visualizations are in good standard. Automated results are easy to interpret and share.