Kennesaw State University offers a Master of Science in applied statistics, a minor in applied statistics and data analysis and a SAS certificate in statistical analysis.

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In the United Kingdom the London Fire Brigade (LFB) uses software created by business analytics specialists SAS as part of their Incident Risk Analysis toolkit.

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Indeed, the two most successful statistical analysis programs, SPSS and SAS, expanded from their domain-specific base (social science for SPSS and bio-medical research for SAS) to become tools used wherever there was data to analyze.

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SAS's products are used to perform analysis in data-intensive industries such as insurance, health care, banking and retailing.

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To run analytics, data had to be extracted out of the database into applications like SAS and proprietary NYSE apps to perform necessary analysis.

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