SAS Online Training

SAS (pronounced “sass”), which one stood for “statistical analysis software,” was created by Jim Goodnight  and N.C. State University colleagues, including John Sall, in the early 1970s to analyze  agricultural-research data.

In 1976, SAS Institute, Inc. was incorporated by Barr, Goodnight, Sall

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SAS ONLINE COURSE CONTENT

• History of SAS
• SAS comes in ERP sector or not? Why?
• What is Clinical Research Study?
• What is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)?
• What is DBMS?
• What is SAP (Statistical Analysis Plan)

SAS BASICS

• Managing windows in SAS window environment
• Why using the SAS in different sectors.
• How to use the data step to read and manipulate complex forms of data
• Write Data and Proc steps.
• Data step compile and execution
• Read any type of external raw data into SAS
• Reading raw data SAS environment into DATA SET using Input statement & advance INLIFE statement options
• Working with Data Storage in SAS libraries creation for user defined libraries and multi-engine architecture
• Reading data from data set to another data set.
• To manage the SAS window environment used with global options.
• To manage existing data with controlling statements and expressions
• Creating Summary Information, SAS Functions, Transforming Data
• Changing variable types using the PUT and INPUT functions summarizing data files
• To expert data from data sets to delimiter files using with data set block
• Understand error messages in the SAS Log and debug your program

LOOPS AND ARRAYS:

• Using Do loops for repetitive calculations and processing
• Using Arrays to process across an observations and processing
• Using DO WHILE and DO UNTIL statements for conditional looping

UTILITIES TO MANAGE AND WORK WITH DATASETS:

• Using the update statement to update data in existing dataset.
• Using the MODIFY statements to update and modify data in place
• Merging concepts
• Concatenation concept in merging
• Interleaving concept and merging
• Different kind of match merging using MERGE statement using the contribution (IN=) option in merge concept
• Using ODS concept to generate reports
• Role of ODS concepts to reporting SAS output
• To generate SAS output in different panels like RTF, HTML,PDF and XML Using ODS

BASE SAS PROCEDURES:

UTILITY PROCEDURES:

1.IMPORT PROCEDURE                11.APPEND PROCEDURE

2.EXPORT PROCEDURE                12.COMPARE PROCEDURE

3.DBLOAD PROCEDURE                13.SORT PROCEDURE

4.COPY PROCEDURE                  14.DATASETS PROCEDURE

5.CPORT PROCEDURE                 15.PRINTTO PROCEDURE

6.CIMPORT PROCEDURE               16.FORMAT PROCEDURE

7.DELTE PROCEDURE                 17.TRANSPOSE PROCEDURE

8.SETININT PROCEDURE              18.ACCESS PROCEDURE

9.OPTIONS PROCEDURE

10.TEMPLATE PROCEDURE

SAS REPORTING PROCEDURES:

1.PRINT PROCEDURE

2.TABULATE PROCEDURE

3.REPORT PROCEDURE

4.CHART PROCEDURE

5.GCHART PROCEDURE

6.PLOT PROCEDURE

7.GPLOT PROCEDURE

SAS STAT PROCDURES:

1.MEANS PROCEDURE                 7.FREQ PROCEDURE

2.SUMMARY PROCEDURE            8.RANK

3.UNIVARIATE PROCEDURE         9.TTEST PROCEDURE

4.CORR PROCEDURE                   10.ANOVA PROCEDURE

5.FREQ PROCEDURE                   11.REG PROCEDURE

6.ZTEST PROCEDURE                  12.GLM PROCEDURE

PROC SQL basics

Introduction to SQL Concepts

Create new tables, indexes , views and reports

Joining Data By using PROC SQL

• What are Cartesian Products , what is join
• Innner , FULL,OUTER,LEFT and RIGHT Joins
• Union join,Cross joins
• Set Operator us such as union and intersection joining multiple tables

PROC SQL ADVANCED Topics

• HOW TO USE SAS MACROS IN SQL
• How to retrieve Raw data different from DATABASES to SAS environment using SQL Statements
• To create table in different databases using SAS sql statement
• To manage in different databases using SAS Sql Statements

PROC SQL PASS TROUGH FACILITY

• Uses of pass through facility
• How to communicate with other database like Access, Oracle, DB2
• To control and manage other databases from the SAS.

SAS MACROS CONCEPTS

•  Macro concepts&Advantages
•  SAS Macro Language
•  Macros And Macro Variables
•  Creating Macro Variables & Using Macro Variables
•  Creating Modular Code With Macros
•  Invoking A Macro
•  Adding Parameters to Macros
•  Writing Macros With Conditional Logic
•  Using Various Procedures in Macro Variables
•  Nesting of Macros
•  Multiple And Multi-Level Macros
•  Macro Functions

SAS DWH CONCEPTS

•  DATAWAREHOSING Concepts
•  What is ETL
•  SAS/ETL Concepts
•  SAS/OLAP Concepts