Introduction to SAS

2-3 days

Audience

Prerequisites

This 2 or 3 day introductory course is designed for programmers, DP personnel, and Non-DP users who would like to use the SAS system.

Students should be able to run SAS at their sites.

Description

SAS is one of the most popular data management languages available on large mainframes today.  It provides statistical analysis, but is also a good system for normal programming applications.  This introductory course is designed for people who would like to use SAS for basic reporting, charting, data summarization, and printer graphics as well as utility or "one-shot" applications.  This is a two or three day hands-on class that will provide students with practical working knowledge of the product.  Students will receive a copy of all class materials. 

Goals/Objectives

·   Identify components of SAS.

·   Code and run SAS programs.

·   Build SAS datasets from raw input.

·   Use SAS PROCS to analyze data.

·   Count values with PROC FREQ.

·   Compute simple statistics such as MEAN, STD.

·   Summarize, rank, and correlate data values.

·   Produce printer plots and charts.

·   Identify and correct common mistakes.

·   Write data step formulas and select rows,  columns, and do accumulations

·   Format SAS data values to make them look better.

·   Produce PROC PRINT and DATA step reports.

·   Process dates and times.

·   Merge, interleave, subset and concatenate SAS datasets.

·   Create and manage permanent SAS data libraries.

·   Use PROC FSEDIT for simple data entry.

·   Use PMENUs and SAS/ASSIST if available.

Outline/Table of Contents

·   Basic SAS concepts

·   Creating SAS datasets

·   Processing SAS datasets

·   Counting values with PROC

·   FREQ

·   PROC MEANS applications

·   Summarizing, ranking and correlating

·   Plotting and charting

·   SAS errors and missing values

·   Transforming SAS data values

·   Formatting SAS data values

·   Report writing with SAS

·   Handling dates, times with SAS

·   Reshaping SAS datasets

·   Permanent SAS dataset management

·   The SAS full screen product

·   PMENUs and SAS/ASSIST.