Statistical Data Analysis with SAS

COURSE ABSTRACT
This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the SAS analytic software for Windows. Through a mixture of lectures and in-class examples, quizzes, and take-home assignments, students will gain experience using the SAS system for data manipulation, management and analysis. You will also expect A LOT of extracurricular learning materials for self-pace learning, treat it as a BONUS! Emphasis will be placed on the skills and techniques necessary for efficient data manipulation, management and analysis. It is designed for students with little to no background with SAS, and an understanding of the basic statistical concepts. This will be an excellent choice for your first SAS introduction course for your data analysis career.
Plus, you will get a FREE course - SAS Data Issue Handling and Good Programming Practice (check out in the bonus lecture)!!!
WHAT DO I EXPECT?


 
A comprehensive course design from SAS basics to statistical analysis
Many in-class examples, exercises and take-home assignment

 
Master various techniques for data importing
Solid understanding of variable attributes, and learn various character/numeric functions

 
IF-THEN/ELSE statements

 
Do loop and counter variables

 
Master DATA step with Concatenation, Merge, etc.

 
Exposed to several useful PROC step (PRINT, SORT, TRANSPOSE, etc.).

 
Descriptive statistics procedures (MEANS, UNIVARIATE, FREQ)
Hypothesis testing (UNIVARIATE, TTEST, ANOVA)

 
Correlations (CORR)
Regression (REG)
PREREQUISITE COURSES AND KNOWLEDGE:
No SAS background required;

 
Basic knowledge of statistics is preferred.
Who this course is for:
Anyone from other programming fields that are interested in SAS
Anyone with no SAS background
Anyone who wants to understand the workflow in SAS