Complete & Practical SAS, Statistics & Data Analysis Course

9,277 students enrolled

Complete & Practical SAS, Statistics & Data Analysis Course

A complete guide and use cases study for job seekers and beginners -- start career in SAS, Statistics and Data science

9,277 students enrolled

Created by Shenggang Li

Last updated 12/2018

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Complete & Practical SAS, Statistics & Data Analysis Course

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What you'll learn

Be equipped with a powerful tool for the most sexy data analytics career path!
Read and write various types of raw data with different formats and options
Create and modify various professional and statistical reports
Be aware of statistical analysis and concepts such as non parametric test, interaction, correlation..
Master the most complete SAS graphics tool such GTL and statistical plots
Learn comprehensive SAS Macro programming knowledge -- variables and user defined functions
Perform many real world case studies -- retail banks, credit bureau, marketing firms and clinical trials
Apply powerful data manipulation -- SQL, subsetting, slicing, filtering, transformation, ranking, sorting..
Understand data management and data piping
Use SAS ODS -- help deliver many useful objects such as charts, tables between different systems
Hundreds of SAS sample codes to explain arrays, functions and business cases

+ – Introduction

1 lecture 14:47

This tutorial describes what are you going to take away from this complete training for job seekers and beginners

What are you going to learn from this course

Preview 14:47

+ – SAS environment and basic concepts

6 lectures 32:55

We will learn key windows under SAS environment

Introduce SAS environment

00:47

Learn concepts about SAS library

SAS library

02:11

Learn SAS environment, library and data creating by running SAS program

Try SAS codes

02:51

This is a guide to let you know how to set up homework. A zipped file (resource) is provided in this session

Home work and data installation

09:22

SAS Cloud Version

Preview 00:14

Show how to install and run SAS Studio on University Edition

Introduction to SAS Studio Installation on University Edition

Preview 17:30

+ – Get started SAS programming

9 lectures 22:22

Learn how to create SAS data sets from external files such as .TXT and .CSV.

Create data sets from external files

02:11

In this lecture, we will learn how a SAS program is running and generate physical data sets.

SAS program - create data sets

03:03

In this lecture we learn, what are correct naming rules in SAS and how to set comments in SAS programming

Valid names and comments

01:38

SAS program -- Valid names and comments

02:06

In this lecture we learn, what are data types and formats which can be used in SAS data and programming

Data type and format

02:51

SAS program -- data type and format

04:07

SAS program - date and format

02:39

In this lecture, we will learn how a SAS program is running and generate physical data sets.

Mechanism of SAS data set

01:23

In this lecture we learn, what are major SAS operations which can be realized using the SAS programming knowledge and skills that we will learn in the later sections.

Summarize SAS operations

02:24

+ – Input and output raw data

9 lectures 36:20

In this lecture we learn, what is list input in SAS, How should we create a SAS data set by reading data using list input method.

List input (1)

02:13

List input (2)

01:42

SAS program -- list input

04:58

In this lecture we learn, how to read raw data if the data format and potions are fixed.

Read data with fixed layout

03:07

In this lecture we learn,about inputting data using input modifiers under some special cases such as date type in SAS . .

Read data with modified list input

02:59

Input data with other features

13:17

In this lecture we learn, how to write SAS data into external files such as TXT and CSV

Write data using data step

01:28

SAS program --write data

02:28

In this lecture we learn, how to import and export data using Wizard tools and SAS coding methods.

Import and export data

04:08

+ – Manipulate data by data step programming

11 lectures 22:01

In this lecture we learn, how to duplicate data sets in SAS.

Duplicate data sets

00:46

SAS program -- duplicate data sets

01:20

We will learn how to add and modify columns or variables of SAS data sets using data step

Modify variables

00:32

SAS program -- modify variables

01:21

We'll look at using various data step statements on column selection.

Variables selection.

04:25

We'll see how how to change column names in SAS data sets

Rename variables

01:00

SAS program -- rename variables

01:30

We will learn what is label and how to assign labels to variables in SAS data sets

Assign labels to variables

01:36

SAS program -- assign labels to variables

02:08

Introduce some methods for subsetting data sets

Subsetting data sets

06:05

SAS program -- Subsetting data sets

01:18

+ – Control flow in SAS

4 lectures 20:14

Structured programming (I)

07:30

SAS program -- Structured programming (I)

04:47

Structured programming (II)

03:50

SAS program -- Structured programming (II)

04:07

+ – SAS data step functions

8 lectures 44:24

In this lecture, we will learn how to use data step character functions

Data step character functions

05:48

SAS program --data step character functions

03:49

Data step numeric functions

02:12

SAS program -- numeric functions

05:47

Data step special functions

02:30

In this lecture we learn, How to apply date and special functions and how to improve performance in data steps

Data step special functions

09:53

In this lecture we learn, what is user defined format and PROC format in SAS, How to create your own data formats to tailor your different needs .

User defined format

04:40

SAS program -- User defined format

09:45

+ – Use cases study (1)

8 lectures 17:06

In this lecture we walk though the data reading using employee data set in SAS

Case study 001(read employee data)

02:07

SAS program -- read employee data

03:00

In this lecture we walk though the data reading using pharmaceutical data set in SAS. Codes can be downloaded

Case study 002(read chronic disease data)

01:16

SAS program -- Case study 002(read chronic disease data)

03:04

In this lecture we walk though the data reading using business account data set in SAS. Codes can be downloaded

Case study 003 ( read business account data)

00:26

SAS program -- Case study 003 ( read business account data)

01:49

In this lecture we walk though the data reading using stock market data set in SAS. Codes can be downloaded

Case study 004 (process stock data)

01:35

SAS program -- Case study 004 (process stock data)

03:49

+ – Other SAS features in data step programming

9 lectures 01:00:36

In this lecture we learn, what is automatic SAS variable. Specifically, we introduce the usages of _N_ and _ERROR_ in data step programming

Automatic Variables(_N_ and _ERROR_)

11:03

In this lecture we show, how to use output statement in data step.

Output statement

08:24

In this lecture we learn, how to apply a return statement and break loop in SAS.

Return statement

10:59

pinpoint the first and last record

02:35

In this lecture we learn, how to use first and last statements to pinpoint the first and last record in SAS data sets

SAS program -- Pinpoint the first and last record

01:34

In this lecture we learn, how to handle the previous record using retain statement

Retain statement

06:41

SAS program -- Retain statement

02:49

In this lecture we learn, what is SAS array and how to apply array in data step

Data step array (1)

08:53

In this lecture we learn, what is SAS array and how to apply array in data step

Data step array (2)

07:38

+ – Use cases study (2)

2 lectures 22:06

In this lecture we learn, how to create new variables in SAS data set

Case study 005(create new KPI features)

12:13

In this lecture we learn, how to apply array Technics in SAS data step to grade students' multiple choice exam.

Case study 006(students grades)

09:53

11 more sections

Requirements

Basic computer operational skills.
Basic math skills.
Data intuition

Description

You should take this course!

• If you need a complete and comprehensive package that covers SAS programming, intuitive statistics interpretation, data analysis, and predictive modeling, and

• If you would like to learn by doing various practical use cases fitting in the positions in different business portfolios, and

• Whether you are a job seeker or beginner intending to start a data science career

Then this around 18 hours course is right for you!

This complete SAS course includes more than 150 lectures and contains 11 real world case studies/projects in different applied areas such as banking and marketing. After this intensive training, you will be equipped with a powerful tool for the most sexy data analytics career path!

Who this course is for:

Beginners or job seekers interested in learning SAS Programming, statistical and data analysis in industry fields.
People who wish to enter data science/analytics field.

Featured review

Ron Orton ( 3 courses, 3 reviews )

11 months ago

Although I skipped the first dozen chapters (because I am already familiar with SAS basics), I found the rest of the course VERY informative and helpful. The instructor if very thorough and straight-forward in his teaching approach/style ***** stars!