SAS

DURATION: 48 Hours

TECHNICAL
BASE SAS
Introduction to SAS Programming
Working in the SAS Environment
Introduction
Working with the windows
Enhance editor window
Log window
Output window
Result window explorer window program editor window
Overview of libraries
Datasets
Data view
catalog
referencing files in SAS libraries
Basic concepts
creating a SAS programs
components of SAS programs
characteristics of SAS programs
layout of SAS programs
Understanding data step processing
program data vector (PDV)
compilation phase
creating a file shortcut with the file shortcut
Assignment window
Making a file shortcut to a program
Deleting a file shortcut
Browsing and submitting a file shortcut for a SAS program
Viewing file shortcut properties
Options
Global options
Local options
Statements
Global statements
Local statements
Input styles
List input
Column input
Formatted input
Modified input
Named input
Pointers
1 Column pointers
line pointers

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 Informats and formats
Informats
character informats
numeric informats
date and time informats
Formats
character formats
numeric formats
date and time formats
Functions
arithmetic functions
string functions
date and time functions
Combining SASA datasets
concatenating
merging
one-to-one merging
one-to-many merging
many-to-one merging
many-to-many merging
matching merging
Interleaving
Updating
Control statements
If statement and if else statement
If then statement
Where statement
Loops (do, dountil, dowhile)
Arrays statements
Reading raw data from external file
Infile statement
Filename statement
DDE triplet
Writing data to external files
File statement
Put statement
Output delivery system (ODS)
Fundamentals of the ODS
ODS and the data step
Syntax for ODS enhanced features in a data step
Introduction to ODS language statements
Dictionary of ODS language statements
Debugging of errors
Writing SAS programs that work
Fixing programs that don't work
Searching for the missing semicolon
Input statements reached past the end of the line lost
Card
Invalid data
Missing valves were generated
Numeric valves have been converted to character (or vice versa)
The data step debugger
Error : invalid option, Error : variable not
Recognized
Error : statement is not valid
2 Note :variable is uninitialized or Error : variable not

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 Found
SAS truncates a character variable
SAS stops in the middle of the job
Procedures
Proc print proc transpose
Proc sort proc forms
Proc contents proc formats
Proc append proc tabulate
Proc import proc report
Proc export proc printto
Proc copy proc datasets
Proc access proc means
Proc freq proc rank
Proc calendar proc compare
SAS/GRAPH
Introduction to graphs
Types of charts
-Chart
-Plot
-Illustration of axis options
-Illustration of symbol options
-Graph n go

FUNCTIONAL

SAS/STAT
Introduction to statistics
Producing descriptive statistics
Computing statistics for numeric variables
Procedures
Proc correlation
Proc regression
Proc means
Proc summary
Proc univariate
Proc freq
Proc annova

ADVANCED SAS

SAS/MACROS
Introduction to macro language elements
Introduction to macro variables
- Automatic macro variables
- User defined macro variables
Introduction to proc SQL
Creating tables
Inserting data into tables
Alter the tables and etc
Update
Modifying the tables
Retrieving data from single table
3 Integration of database
Connecting to a DBMS using the SQL procedure pass-

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 Through facility
Connecting to a excel using the SQL procedure pass-
Through facility
Connecting to a access using the SQL procedure pass-
Through facility
connecting to a DBMS using the Libname statement
Retrieving data from multiple tables
natural join
inner join
outer join (right, left, full)
SAS/ACCESS
Define SAS/ACCESS software
Identify the types of data repositories that SAS/ACCESS can access
The interface engine
The SQL procedure pass- through facility
The access procedure
Requirements to connect to a database
SAS/ACCESS Libname engines
ODBC
Understanding how to use the ODBC with SAS software
Set up a data source for a data base driver
Defining the ODBC API
ODBC terminology
Defining the data source manager
ODBC driver
Data sources

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