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Report Writing with Proc Report in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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Audience

This course is designed for SAS users who wish to produce a variety of report styles such as listings and tabulations with summary statistics using the SAS system.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with Base SAS® Software, data and procedure steps, and ideally be trained or have experience to at least the SAS Fundamentals level, as this course exclusively concentrates on the programming approach to Proc REPORT.  No previous experience of Proc REPORT is required

Objectives

After this course attendees will be able to apply the Proc Report procedure to create listings and tabulations from SAS data sets, whilst taking extensive control over the layout and appearance of their reports, whether in the traditional output window, Microsoft Word document or in web pages.  Attendees will also gain an understanding of the different methods of defining and ordering columns of data, adding summary statistics and adding customised information to their reports.

Topics

PR1 lntroduction

  • Features
  • Proc REPORT vs. Proc TABULATE and Proc Print
  • Statistics with Proc Report
  • Different Methods of Using Proc Report
  • Workshop Session

PR4 Summarising Data

  • Adding Summary Statistics
  • Reporting Pre-summarised Data
  • Introducing Compute Blocks and Line Statements
  • Outputting Reports to a SAS Data Set
  • Workshop Session

PR2 The Report Procedure from Scratch

  • Creating a Basic Listing
  • Ordering Data
  • Taking Control of Proc Reports’ Appearance
  • Defining the Appearance of Individual Columns
  • Using the Break Statement
  • Workshop Session

PR5 Customising Output (Optional)

  • Using Microsoft Word Formatting from ODS RTF
  • Changing the Appearance of Data with CALL DEFINE
  • Workshop Session

PR3 Using the Output Delivery System

  • ODS Destinations
  • Microsoft Word Documents
  • HTML Web Pages
  • Multiple ODS Destinations
  • Changing the Reports’ Appearance with Styles
  • Changing the Reports’ Appearance with Proc Template
  • Workshop Session

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