Introduction to SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4
Duration: 2 days
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Description
This course focuses on how to access, manage, summarise, and present data using
SAS® Enterprise Guide®. The course teaches students how to navigate the menu-driven interface of
SAS® Enterprise Guide® to accomplish tasks such as accessing local SAS and Microsoft®
Excel tables – defined formats; managing, manipulating, and joining data using the SQL
query builder; generating descriptive statistics, tabular summary reports, and ActiveX graphs;
and automating and scheduling tasks.
Objectives
By the end of the course Delegates will be able use the capabilities and features
of EG4. They will be able to use the interface effectively and will have the ability to create
projects that access data from various sources, manipulate data, analyse it and produce reports.
Prerequisite Skills
This course is designed for end users with no programming experience or SAS
knowledge. Before attending this course, you should be familiar with Windows and other software,
such as Microsoft Office or spreadsheet programs.
SAS® System Modules used
SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.
Getting Started
- Introducing SAS® Enterprise Guide®
- Course scenarios
Working with Data in a Project
- Introduction to tabular data
- Adding a local SAS table
- Accessing remote data
Adding Local Data in Other Software Formats
- Importing text files
- Working with tables in the data grid (self-study)
Getting Started with Tasks
- Introduction to task dialogs
- Creating a listing report
- Creating a frequency report
- Creating a two-way frequency report
- Using variable parameters in tasks
Creating Simple Queries
- Introduction to the query task
- Setting a filter and selecting columns
- Creating new columns with an expression
- Creating new columns by recoding values
- Joining tables
- Joining tables including non-matching rows
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