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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

Public Booking

September 2010 October 2010 November 2010
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