Getting Started with SAS Programming

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Overview

“Getting Started with SAS Programming” is an introductory course designed for individuals looking to gain foundational skills in SAS (Statistical Analysis System), a powerful software suite used for data analysis, business intelligence, and statistical modeling. Widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and academia, SAS is a key tool for professionals working with large and complex datasets. This course guides learners through the basics of SAS programming, including data step processing, reading and importing data, creating and modifying datasets,...

Syllabus

Course Overview and Data Setup

In this module you learn about the course and you set up the data you need to do the practices in the course.

Essentials

In this module you learn how to use SAS programming tools and the fundamentals of SAS program structure and syntax.

Accessing Data

In this module, you learn to identify the features of a SAS table, access data through SAS libraries, and import data into SAS.

Exploring and Validating Data

In this module, you learn to use SAS procedures that provide insights about your data. You also learn to subset data so you can focus on particular segments, format data so you can easily understand it, and sort data to identify and resolve duplicate values.

Preparing Data

In this module, you learn how to do some common data manipulations, such as filtering rows and columns, computing new columns, and performing conditional processing.

Analyzing and Reporting on Data

In this module, we concentrate on summarizing data by using the SAS procedures that we touched on for data exploration. You also learn how to use titles, column labels, footnotes, and macro variables to enhance your reports and make them more meaningful.