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Answer» SAS Framework has the following four capabilities: - Access Data: Data accessibility is a powerful SAS capability. In other words, data can be accessed from different sources including raw databases, excel files, Oracle databases, SAS datasets, ETC.
- Manage Data: SAS offers additional capabilities including data management. Data accessed from a variety of sources can thus be managed easily in order to generate useful insights. The process of managing data can include creating variables, validating data, cleaning data, creating subsets, etc. SAS manages the existing data to provide the data that you need.
- Analyze Data: SAS will analyze the data once it has been managed to perform simple evaluations like frequency and AVERAGES, along with more complex evaluations like forecasting, regression, etc.
- Present: The ANALYZED data can be saved and stored as a GRAPHIC report, a list, and overall statistics that can be printed or published. They can also be saved into a data FILE.
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