Statistical Data Analysis with SAS

Course details

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 alsoexpect A LOT of extracurricularlearning materials forself-pacelearning, 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 anexcellentchoice for your first SASintroduction course for your data analysiscareer.

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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 dataimporting
• Solid understanding of variable attributes, and learn variouscharacter/numericfunctions
• 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.