Nrassm: What programming skills, if any, should I develop if I want to use advanced Statistical systems?
Statistical Analysis systems like SAS. Should I consider taking programming courses if I also want to get involved in econometrics? Haven’t taken the class yet but will in a few days.
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Answer by icprofit6000
SAS is a statistical application language, and although it has a macro language to do some procedural work, I found that I had little need for programming while using SAS. Instead of programming, much of what I wanted to do existed in the SAS procedures. It more reading the procedures and their parameters and knowing which one to use.
On the other hand, sometimes the data is not in a format which is easy to read using SAS, in such cases it was nice to have another language to preprocess the data.
Learning how to use a programming language or system tool to do this could be useful.
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