Course in SAS Applications

Course content:

Introduction to SAS programming language

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Why SAS
1.3 SAS characteristics
1.4 SAS Data Set
1.5 Steps in SAS - DATA & PROC
1.6 Program Flow-Parse Cycle, Observation Loop & PDV

Programming Concepts

2.1 Sample SAS Program
2.2 Rules of SAS program
2.3 SAS Data Files
2.4 Reading Data in SAS
2.5 Reading External files
2.6 INFORMATS
2.7 FORMATS
2.8 Data Set options
2.9 Conditional Processing
2.10 Operators in SAS
2.11 SAS Date & Time
2.12 SAS Automatic Variables

3 Merging and Combining SAS Data Sets

3.1 Concatenating SAS Data Sets
3.2 Merging SAS Data Sets
3.3 Outputting Multiple Observations

4 SAS Procedures

4.1 PROC PRINT
4.2 PROC FREQ
4.3 PROC MEANS
4.4 PROC SUMMARY
4.5 PROC SORT
4.6 PROC CONTENTS
4.7 PROC PRINTTO
4.8 PROC FORMAT
4.9 PROC DATASETS
4.10 PROC REPORT

5 Functions in SAS

5.1 Arithmetic Functions
5.2 String Functions
5.3 Date Time Functions

6 Introduction to Advanced SAS Programming

6.1 SAS ODS
6.2 PROC SQL
6.3 SAS Macros
6.4 Creating Efficient Programs in SAS