What you'll learn
This course is suitable for the new practical BASE programming credential: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4
Software installation (SAS University Edition /SAS studio): the complete & step-by-step guide; detailed explanation on File path/directory in SAS studio
Get 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, TODAY, 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 statements
Simplify 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 UNIVARIATE
Generate 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 TRANSPOSE
SAS advanced topic: Proc SQL Essentials
SAS advanced topic: SAS Macros Essentials

Requirements
Basic computer skills

Description
Do you want to start learning SAS programming easily and quickly? This course is the most complete SAS BASE certification programming course for

absolute SAS beginners

anyone interested in passing the SAS BASE certification exam

suitable for the new practical SAS programming certificate: SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4

Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions for the new SAS BASE certificate exam

You 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 experiences

most 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 courses

1. SAS programming for beginners

2. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 1: modify variables

3. SAS programming on data manipulation and preparation part 2: combine/merge data sets

4. Overview / Essentials for SAS advanced topics: SAS SQL (Proc SQL) and SAS Macro Language

5. Additional topics: Error handling, Generate reports using ODS statements

downloadable data and SAS programs used in the course (the course materials are ONLY for practice, they are protected by copyright)

Quizzes, coding exercises and projects for practice. After all, practice makes perfection!

Coding exercises and projects are perfect for for the practical coding questions for the new certificate exam on SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4

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Current course contents: (Please see course curriculum for more detailed information on sections and lectures included in this course)

Software installation (SAS University Edition /SAS studio): the complete & step-by-step guide; detailed explanation on File path/directory in SAS studio

Navigate/work in SAS environment

Get 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)

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, TODAY, 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 statements

Simplify 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 UNIVARIATE, Proc Export, Proc Content

Generate 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 TRANSPOSE

SAS advanced topic: Proc SQL Essentials

SAS advanced topic: SAS Macros Essentials

References:

SAS certification prep guide: base programming by SAS Institute

The little SAS book: a primer / Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter

Learning SAS by example: a programmer's guide / Ron Cody

Note: A SAS software licence allows SC statistical programming to create and sell video-based SAS programming online courses.

Who this course is for?
absolute SAS beginners
Anyone interested in taking SAS BASE certification exam
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