Date:         Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:07:20 +0100
Reply-To:     Stéphane COLAS <scolas@DATAMETRIC.FR>
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From:         Stéphane COLAS <scolas@DATAMETRIC.FR>
Subject:      Re: Programming Interface
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Hi,

SAS IT Module allows the communication between SAS and C# via the OLE provider
for instance. See the Alan Churchill site (www.savian.net) and always excellent
answers about the SAS/C# communication on the archive of SAS-L.

Otherwise, you can see some solutions outside SAS for the econometric analysis,
I think to Eviews, S+ or R, Stata ... it's less expensive.

Finally, if the price was not a brake, perharps you can see SAS Guide that
allows you to follow the wizard to build an analysis, but not to interpret the
results or think about before to start :-)

HTH

Stéphane.


Selon cleophas@GMAIL.COM:

> Hello,
>
> can anyone here tell me whether SAS - or any similar powerful
> statistical analysis software - has an interface that would allow me to
> write a program in, say, Delphi or C# handing data to SAS with
> instructions on analysis, get results back and hand them to the user?
> I know that modules for mathematical optimizations can be used like
> that (CPLEX), but since computer-aided econometric analysis is new to
> me, I have no clue here.
>
> Am I even right in looking at SAS for such a task?  Or is there some
> other software package I should have a look at?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Greetings
> C. Cleophas
>