Udemy SAS Programming BASE certification course for SAS Beginners

BESTSELLER | Created by Toyin Akin | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch | Duration: 13:55 H/M | Lec: 116 | 5.70 GB | Language: English | Sub: English [Auto-generated]This course is suitable for the new practical BASE programming credential: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.







4Software installation (SAS University Edition /SAS studio): the complete & step-by-step guide; detailed explanation on File path/directory in SAS studioGet Data in various format into SAS: (read .txt file, .csv file, Excel file, format input (using SAS informat to read dates; use SAS format to display SAS date values). Proc Import, Proc Export, Proc Content)Create temporary and permanent SAS data sets (SET statement, LIBNAME statement, SAS libraries )Combine data sets (Concatenate, Append, interleave, Match Merge (one -to-one merge, one-to-many merge))Use SAS Functions to manipulate SAS date values (Explanation on how SAS stores date and time values, SAS functions include MDY, YEAR, QTR, MONTH, DAY, WEEKDAY, DATE, INTCK, DATDIF, YRDIF)Use SAS Functions to manipulate character and numeric data values (use SAS functions to Convert Character & Numeric Value (auto-convert; PUT & INPUT functions), Other SAS functions include: SCAN, SUBSTR, TRIM, UPCASE, LOWCASE, PROPCASE, CATX, INDEX, TRANWRD, INT, ROUND)Conditionally execute SAS statements: IF-THEN/ELSE, DO and END statementsSimplify your data with Array (One dimensional array; two dimensional array; Creating Variables in an ARRAY Statement; Assigning Initial Values to Arrays & Creating Temporary Array Elements)Process data with DO LOOPS (the basic of DO LOOPS; constructing DO LOOPS; Conditionally Executing DO Loops using DO UNTIL and DO WHILE; Using Conditional Clauses with the Iterative DO Statement)Work with data & Creating labels and formats (Use assignment statements in the DATA step; Use LABEL and FORMAT statements to modify attributes in a DATA step; Define the length of a variable using the LENGTH statement; Control which observations and variables using DROP, KEEP statements and DROP=, KEEP= options, and IF statement)SAS Statistical Procedures: Proc SORT; Proc PRINT; Proc MEANS; Proc FREQ; Proc UNIVARIATEGenerate list reports using the PRINT procedure (using VAR, SUM, WHERE, ID and BY statements)Generate reports using ODS statements (Identify ODS destinations, create HTML, PDF, RTF, and Excel files with ODS statements)Reconstruct/Reshape SAS Data sets in DATA step and using Proc TRANSPOSESAS advanced topic: Proc SQL EssentialsSAS advanced topic: SAS Macros EssentialsBasic computer skillsDo you want to start learning SAS programming easily and quickly? This course is the most complete SAS BASE certification programming course forabsolute SAS beginnersanyone interested in passing the SAS BASE certification examsuitable for the new practical SAS programming certificate: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions for the new SAS BASE certificate examYou may compare the contents covered in this course with the official SAS BASE certification Exam contents (the new practical exam is SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4) and SAS BASE certification prep guide (due to Udemy policy, I can not include the SAS link here).Course Highlights:step by step/ code by code explanations for easy and efficient learning experiencesmost complete SAS BASE course for beginners and the SAS BASE certification exam(suitable for the new practical SAS programming certificate: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4)This course is a combined course to offer the maxim benefit for my students, it includes contents from the following individual courses1. SAS programming for beginners2. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 1: modify variables3. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 2: combine/merge data sets4. Overview / Essentials for SAS advanced topics: SAS SQL (Proc SQL) and SAS Macro Language5. Additional topics: Error handling, Generate reports using ODS statements