Events

Event Title	SAS
Location	Davis Library Rm 219
Sponsor	H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time	08/31/2020 - 09/03/2020 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cutoff Date	08/28/2020 Must register before this date

For more information, contact the event administrator: Jill Stevens jill_stevens@unc.edu

This is a four-part course.

SAS part 1 of 4 will give an introduction to the SAS system and SAS windows. Topics to be covered include:

creating and saving SAS programs
reading in data from simple and complex text data sets
typing variables
obtaining frequencies, contents, and univariate statistics

SAS 2/4 will cover:

formatting variable venues
creating SAS libraries for storing and retrieving SAS data sets and format files
reading raw data from external files
creating new SAS data sets from existing SAS data sets, subsetting by observation and by variable

SAS 3/4 will cover:

how to create new SAS data sets combining information from multiple existing SAS data sets
how to sort, concatenate, interleave, and merge data sets
how to perform the t-test, and test for no association in a contingency table

For SAS 4/4, attendants will be allowed to suggest topics. Past topics include variable retyping, creating SAS datasets from SAS output; creating html and Microsoft Word tables, ANOVA, importing and exporting Excel files.