SAS® Essentials: An Introduction to SAS® Programming
Duration: 3 days
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Description
This three-day course is designed for users who are new to SAS® Software. The course provides
a solid grounding in the basic concepts of accessing data from different sources and manipulating, analyzing and
reporting on the data once it has been read into SAS.
Objectives
After attending this course you will be able to:
- read a SAS data set
- combine SAS data sets through concatenation and merging
- create SAS data variables and recode data values
- investigate and summarize your data
- calculate simple statistics
- create list, summary, HTML and graph reports
Prerequisite Skills
Before attending this course, you should have a basic understanding of your
computer system and have:
- an understanding of your Operating System
- some experience of programming in other languages or packages
SAS® System Modules used
This course covers Version 9 of Base SAS®, SAS/ACCESS®
and SAS/GRAPH®.
Course Topics
Introduction
- overview of SAS
- getting started with SAS
Accessing Data
- accessing existing SAS data sets
- reading raw data files
- reading Microsoft Excel files
- accessing a RDBMS (optional)
Managing Data
- reading SAS data sets and creating new columns
- controlling output of rows and columns
- conditional processing using IF...THEN...ELSE
- sorting SAS data sets
- combining SAS data sets
- recoding data values
Analyzing Data
- creating frequency reports
- PROC MEANS and PROC SUMMARY
- the UNIVARIATE procedure (self-study)
- exporting data using the Output Delivery System (ODS)
Presenting Data
- titles, footnotes and SAS options
- generating reports using the PRINT procedure
- PROC REPORT
- PROC TABULATE (self-study)
- producing graphical reports
Appendices
Appendix A: Data Set Merging
- concatenating SAS data sets
- complex concatenation
- interleaving SAS data sets
- match-merging SAS data sets
- one-to-many match-merges
- many-to-many match-merges
- eliminating non-matches
Appendix B: Additional Information
- SAS Catalogs
- introduction to SAS Macros
- ODS RTF and PDF Output
- the Enhanced Editor
- the EXPLORER Window
- the PREFERENCES Window
- PROC DATASETS
- reading delimited raw data using list input
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