SAS (R) Programming Course Notes

The SAS Institute provides an instructor-based training course called SAS Programming. The following course guide accompanies the course and is an excellent resource even if one has not taken the course itself. The course guide is separated into six sections, which all include exercises and a chapter summary. The first section titled Introduction includes: course overview and prerequisites, review of file structures, review of fundamental concepts, writing observations, and review of display manager.The second section titled Processing Raw Data includes: introduction, reading raw data, multiple records per observation, conditional input, accumulating totals, hierarchial files, multiple observations per record, and writing raw data. The third section Data Tranformations includes: manipulating numeric values, manipulating character values, and data conversion. The fourth section Iterative Processing has: iteratively executing statements, reading data with DO loops, array processing, and array features.The fifth section Reading and Combining SAS Data Sets has: using the SET statement, merging SAS data sets, updating SAS data sets, and additional features. The sixth section Processing SAS Data Sets with PROC SQL includes: structured query language, concatenating SAS data sets, and merging SAS data sets.The course guide is well-organized with visual to assist in working out exercises on your own. A well put together course guide that serves as an excellent at your desk reference and teaching resource.