SAS 9.2 Base Programming

Course

In Hounslow

£ 799 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Hounslow

  • Duration

    15 Days

Persons interested to take the SAS Certified Base Programmer Exam. Suitable for: Beginners to advanced level programmers.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Hounslow (London)
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Craneshaw House, 8, Douglas Road, High Street, TW3 1DA

Start date

On request

About this course

For this course it is recommended to have understanding of the operating system and programming experience in other languages.

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Course programme

Getting Started with SAS:
  • Introduction to SAS programs
  • Mastering fundamental programming concepts.
Accessing Existing SAS Data Sets:
  • Introduction to SAS data sets
  • Accessing existing SAS data sets.
Reading Raw Data Files:
  • Introduction
  • Reading fixed-width files
  • DATA step processing
  • Reading delimited Raw data files
  • Testing a DATA step (Self-study)
Reading SAS Data Sets and Creating New Variables:
  • Reading SAS data sets
  • Creating new variables
Controlling the Output of Variables and Observations:
  • Controlling the output of variables
  • Controlling the output of observations
  • Conditional Processing Using IF…THEN…ELSE Logic
  • Sorting SAS Data Sets
Combining SAS Data Sets:
  • Concatenating SAS Data Sets
  • Interleaving SAS Data Sets
  • Match-Merging SAS Data Sets
  • Eliminating Non-Matches and Identifying Data Set Contributors
Recoding Data Values:
  • Applying Formats
  • Creating User-Defined Formats
  • Creating Frequency Reports
  • Generating Summary Statistics
Exporting Data using the Output Delivery System (ODS):
  • Overview of the Output Delivery System
  • Generating HTML Output
  • Titles, Footnotes and SAS System Options
Generating Reports using the Print Procedure:
  • Overview of the PRINT Procedure
  • Proc PRINT Additional Features (Self-study)
Controlling Input and Output:
  • Outputting Multiple Observations
  • Writing to Multiple SAS Data Sets
  • Selecting Variables and Observations
  • Writing to an External File
Summarising Data:
  • Creating an Accumulating Total Variable
  • Accumulating Totals for a Group of Data
Reading and Writing Different Types of Data:
  • Controlling When a Record Loads
  • Reading Hierarchical Raw Data Files
  • Proc REPORT:
  • Proc REPORT Overview
  • Additional Features of Proc REPORT (Self-study)
Processing Data Iteratively:
  • DO Loop Processing
  • SAS Array Processing
  • Using SAS Arrays
Data Transformations:
  • Manipulating Character Values
  • Manipulating Numeric Values
  • Manipulating Numeric Values Based on Dates
  • Converting Variable Types
Debugging Techniques:
  • Using the PUT Statement
  • Using the DEBUG Option

SAS 9.2 Base Programming

£ 799 VAT inc.