SAS Programming Essentials for Educators

Duration: 2.0 days CEUs: 1.2
Available for on-site training or can be scheduled at any SAS training facility if demand warrants.

This course provides students with the SAS knowledge and skills needed to more effectively use SAS software. Students create SAS data sets from raw data files and existing SAS data sets, subset data, combine SAS data sets, create variables, use macro variables, and create simple graphs. This course is designed for professors who have no previous experience using SAS or who want to refresh their SAS programming skills.

Who should attend

The primary audience for this course is users who plan to use SAS software for subject-matter analysis and who need a quick start into data manipulation and data management.

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have at least six months of programming experience. Specifically, you should be able to

understand file structures and system commands
understand programming logic.

Course Contents

Introduction

examine the structure of a SAS program

The DATA Step

examine the descriptor and data portion of a SAS data set
understand data set and variable naming conventions
examine SAS data libraries
create a SAS data set using column input
create a SAS data view using column input

Creating Graphs with SAS/GRAPH

create bar charts and histograms using the GCHART procedure
create scatter plots with the GPLOT procedure
enhance the appearance of graphs using the SYMBOL and AXIS statements

Modifying SAS Data Sets

create new variables using an assignment statement and conditional logic
subset a data set using the subsetting IF statement

Working with Existing SAS Data Sets

create a new SAS data set from an existing SAS data set
concatenate SAS data sets
merge SAS data sets
working with SAS data sets using the SQL procedure

Accessing Data from Other Sources

access Microsoft Excel data using the LIBNAME statement
access data using the Import Wizard

Creating and Using Macro Variables

use the % LET statement
use the % PUT statement

Software

This course addresses Base SAS. This course also addresses SAS/GRAPH software and SAS/ACCESS to PC Files.

Course Materials

Students receive a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.

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