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Fast-Track Base Programming
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Fast Track Base Programming - Newtyne, Edinburgh

 

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Course Length:

This is a five-day course.

Course Summary:

The Fast-Track Base Programming course not only provides delegates with an understanding of the underlying processing of the language of SAS, but also a breadth of understanding of the programming syntax.  This in-depth course will suit both the complete novice, as well as for those who have prior exposure to the language of SAS, but who lack any formal education on its inner workings.

This course covers the curriculum required to sit the SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 Certification.

What you will be taught:

  • An Introduction to the language of SAS
    • Program Components
    • What are Datasets
    • The LIBNAME Statement
  • Background Concepts
    • Syntax Rules
    • Datasets
    • Naming Conventions
    • Dates and Times
    • Missing Values
  • Building Data Steps
    • The DATA Statement
    • The SET Statement
    • Creating New Variables
    • Data Step Processing
  • Introducing Functions
    • The SUM Function
    • The MEAN Function
    • Date Functions
    • Character Functions
  • Selecting Variables and Observations
    • KEEPing and DROPing Variables
    • The IF Statement
    • The WHERE Statement
  • IF - THEN - ELSE Processing
    • IF-THEN-ELSE Syntax
    • DO-END Syntax
    • The LENGTH Statement
    • The OUTPUT Statement
    • The DELETE Statement
  • Sorting Data with PROC SORT
    • PROC SORT Syntax
    • Creating an Output Dataset
    • Removing Duplicate Data
  • Combining Data
    • Combining Data Vertically
    • Combining Data Horizontally
  • Reading Raw Data
    • The INFILE Statement
    • The INPUT Statement
    • Reading Non-Standard Data
    • Subsetting Raw Data
  • Labels and Formats
    • Labels
    • Supplied Formats
    • User-Defined Formats
  • Frequency Counts with PROC FREQ
    • One-Way Frequency Tables
    • Two-Way Frequency Tables
    • Creating Output Datasets
  • Summary Statistics with PROC MEANS
    • The VAR Statement
    • The CLASS Statement
    • PROC MEANS Options
  • The Output Delivery System
    • ODS Destinations
    • Creating HTML Files
    • Creating Datasets
  • List Reports with PROC PRINT
    • PROC PRINT Syntax and Statements
    • PROC PRINT Options
    • TITLES and FOOTNOTES
  • Summary Tables with PROC TABULATE
    • The TABLE Statment
    • One, Two and Three Dimensional Tables
    • Creating Multiple Tables
  • The OUTPUT Statement
    • The OUTPUT Statement
    • Outputting to Multiple Datasets
    • Selecting Observations
    • Selecting Variables
  • Summarizing Observations
    • The RETAIN Statement
    • The SUM Statment
    • BY-GROUP Processing
  • Manipulating Data using Functions
    • Transforming Character Variables
    • Transforming Numeric Variables
    • Transforming Date Variables
    • Changing Variable Type
  • Debug programs using PUT Statements
    • The PUT Statement
    • The PUTLOG Statement
  • Iterative Processing
    • DO Loops
    • DO WHILE and DO UNTIL Loops
  • Array Processing
    • Defining an ARRAY
    • Using an ARRAY to Create Variables
    • ARRAYs with Initial Values
    • The _TEMPORARY_ Keyword
    • Using an ARRAY with Existing Variables
    • Using an ARRAY to Transpose Data
  • Reading Raw Data
    • The INFILE and INPUT Statements
    • Fixed-Width Column Data
    • Data Errors
    • Formatted Data
    • INFORMATS
    • Detecting Errors
    • The DATALINES Statement
    • The Single Trailing @
    • The Double Trailing @
    • Delimited Data
    • The DSD Option

What you should already know:

  • Knowledge of your computer system
  • Basic computer literacy
  • Some previous programming experience is beneficial, but not essential

 

 

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