Saturday, December 12, 2009

Basic Practical Statistics With SAS - Basic Course

In this course, attendees will learn basic statistical concepts and techniques. They will also know how to compute and apply these basic statistics with SAS with 100s of practical statistical problems and solutions.


1. What are the statistical problems (45 actual problem mentioning them, in story telling and creating intrigue) - remaining 55 will be used for exercise sessions and labs (1)
2. Why statistical methods are essential and unavoidable to solve the problems mentioned in (1/ )
3. Metrics of location (mean, median, mode, percentiles, quartiles, skewness, kurtosis), metrics of spread (range, variance, standard deviation), comparison of data items, statistical certainty vs. certainty in the above metrics
- how to compare data items - distributions, statistical summary of comparison
4. What are the natural questions in a programming context?
5. Reading and writing simple tables (3 hours/ )
- direct input
- csv/txt
- checking data (through GUI directory), by printing (PROC PRINT)
- meta data (PROC CONTENTS)
- ordering of variables and searching for information
6. sending SAS datasets to others and receiving and using them (PROC IMPORT/EXPORT files)
7. Complex data structures (one record per line, multiple records per line, multiple lines per record, multiple records across multiple files, nth record selected, randomly selected record, )
8. various systems (UNIX/IBM/PC) - how the data differs in reading/writing/storing/outputting - this may be moved for special sessions or coaching (1 hr / ...)
9. Data steps/sort/merge/Importance and Usage of First.xxxx and Last.xxxx observations (1 hour/ ), output statement
10. Data _NULL_, list, put statements (1 hour/ )
11. PROC SQL (3 hour/ hour)
12. Proc univariate (1 hour/ hour)
13. PROC means (1 hour/ hour)
14. PROC FREQ (1 hour/ hour)
15. PROC SUMMARY/TABULATE (1/ hour)
16. ODS for outputting
17. Data components of PROCs (standard outputs of procs, how to understand object names of components of PROCs, viewing, recombining for your special template output needs) - 1 hour/ hour
18. LAB 1/ hour
19. LAB 2/ hour
20. LAB 3/ hour

21. Evaluation and Certification (30 Min/ hour)

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