SAS (R) Fundamentals: A Programming Approach Course Notes

The course guide accompanies the SAS Institute instructor-based training course SAS Fundamentals: A Programming Approach.The manual is well organized and illustrated. A convenient desk reference that can be utilized outside the course easily due to detailed explanations and illustrations. The manual includes exercises and solutions in addition to a thorough chapter summary.This course guide is composed of 9 sections and an appendix.Section 1 Fundamental Concepts of SAS Programming includes introduction and fundamental concepts.Section 2 The SAS Display Manager System has: overview of the SAS Display Manager System, saving and retrieving SAS programs, editing SAS programs, and resolving common problems.Section 3 Getting Familiar with SAS Data Sets includes: accessing existing SAS data sets, investigating data set structure, investigating data values, ad hoc queries and data modification. Section 4 Producing List Reports has: getting started with the Print procedure, sequencing and grouping observations, customizing report appearance, and formatting data values.Section 5 Creating SAS Data Sets includes: reading raw data files, examining data errors, creating permanent SAS data sets, assigning variable attributes, and additional features.Section 6 DATA Step Programming has: creating and managing variables, reading SAS data sets, and conditional processing.Section 7 Combining SAS Data Sets includes: concatenating SAS data sets and merging SAS data sets.Section 8 Producing Summary Reports has: creating tabular reports, customizing tabular reports and requesting statistics in tabular reports.Section 9 Introduction to Graphics includes: general concepts, producing bar and pie charts and producing plots.