SAS Programming 1: Essentials

Introduction
- overview of SAS Foundation
- course logistics
- course data files

SAS Programs
- introduction to SAS programs
- submitting a SAS program
- SAS program syntax

Accessing Data
- examining SAS data sets
- accessing SAS libraries

Producing Detail Reports
- subsetting report data
- sorting and grouping report data
- enhancing reports

Formatting Data Values
- using SAS formats
- creating user-defined formats

Reading SAS Data Sets
- reading a SAS data set
- customizing a SAS data set

Reading Spreadsheet and Database Data
- reading spreadsheet data
- reading database data

Reading Raw Data Files
- introduction to reading raw data files
- reading standard delimited data
- reading nonstandard delimited data
- handling missing data

Manipulating Data
- using SAS functions
- conditional processing

Combining Data Sets
- concatenating data sets
- merging data sets one-to-one
- merging data sets one-to-many
- merging data sets with nonmatches

Creating Summary Reports
- using the FREQ procedure
- using the MEANS and UNIVARIATE procedures
- using the Output Delivery System

Learning More
- SAS resources
- next steps