Webinar: Elementary Statistics for SAS Programmers

Selected option:: e-Learning
Cost per delegate:: £80.00
Duration:: 2 Hours

Audience

This webinar is intended for SAS Programmers who wish to understand the functionality of Base SAS produces MEANS, SUMMARY, UNIVARIATE and FREQ to calculate and report basic descriptive statistics and explore their data.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with programming procedure steps in Base SAS language is an advantage.

Objectives

After this webinar, attendees will understand how to use Base SAS procedures for the calculation of various descriptive statistics for continuous data.

Topics

1. Introduction

SAS Procedures Used
Statistical Terminology Used
Types of Data

2. Summarising Data into Groups

Basic Syntax
Classifying Data with CLASS and TYPES Statements
Classifying Data using Reference Tables and Formats
Saving Results with Automatically Named and Labelled Statistics
Saving Results for Many Variables with Varying Statistics to Many Output Tables.

3. Summarising the Distribution of Data

Basic Syntax
Choosing between Standard Error of the Mean and the Standard Deviation
Summarising Normality of Data
Confidence Limits for Mean of Normal Data
Confidence Limits for the Median of Non-Normal Data

4. Exploring Data with Statistical Graphics

Comparative Histograms
Dot Plots
Scatter Plots
Box-and-Whisker Plots

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