After completing this course, the student should be able to:
 

	Use sorting and printing procedures to tailor reports
	Employ plotting and charting procedures to graphically represent SAS data sets
	Use SAS procedures to perform statistical analysis
	Analyze SAS logs with problems
	Use PROC REPORT to prepare reports that combine both summary and detail data

SAS Review
Review basic SAS and course conventions.
 

Course Program

Basic SAS program used as the course example.  The FILE and INCLUDE commands in Display Manager to store and access a program.  Rules for coding SAS.  Syntax and screen design conventions used in the SAS series.

Printing with SAS
Describes procedures to tailor reports and to graphically represent SAS data sets.
 

PROC SORT

Using PROC SORT to sort a data set by one or more of its variables.  SORT options.  The BY statement.
 

PROC PRINT

Using PROC PRINT to create a report.  PRINT options.  The statements BY, SUM, VAR, ID, PAGEBY and SUMBY.  
 

PROC PLOT and CHART

Using PROC PLOT to produce a plot of SAS data.  PLOT options.  Using PROC CHART to produce charts.  Types of charts.  

Simple SAS Statistics
Covers how to perform the desired statistical analysis using SAS procedures.
 

PROC MEANS

Using PROC MEANS to compute the arithmetic mean or average for numeric variables within a data set.  Using the procedure to compute summary statistics for each numeric variable.  The statements BY, VAR and TITLE.
 

PROC FREQ

Using PROC FREQ to produce frequency and crosstabulation tables.  The TABLES statement.
 

PROC TTEST

Using PROC TTEST to compute t statistics for a SAS data set.  The CLASS and VAR statements.

PROC REPORT
Describes how PROC REPORT is used to prepare reports that combine both summary and detail data.
 

Basics

Capabilities of PROC REPORT.  DEFINE and COLUMN statements.  ANALYSIS, DISPLAY and ORDER variable types.  FORMAT, WIDTH and ORDER options.  Assigning column headings.
 

Grouping and Summarizing

BREAK and RBREAK statements.  COMPUTE blocks.  GROUP variable type.  Generating detail listings with summary data.
 

Advanced Topics

ACROSS variable type.  Aliases on the COLUMN statement.  FLOW, SPACING, HEADSKIP, HEADLINE, CENTER/NOCENTER and PANELS=x options.  IF-THEN and LINE statements within COMPUTE blocks.  WHERE clause.

What Ifs
Gives practice in analyzing SAS logs to find and correct errors in the SAS program.
 

Analyzing SAS Logs with Problems

Logs showing results of incorrectly coded SAS statements and omitted parameters.