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Doing More with SAS Programming

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Course Features

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Duration

24 hours

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

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Video Content

24 hours

Course Description

This course is specifically designed for SAS programmers and business analysts who want to enhance their skills in data manipulation. It covers various techniques such as the SAS DATA step and procedures for accessing, transforming, and summarizing data. This course assumes prior knowledge of SAS programming and is not recommended for beginners.

The course focuses on teaching participants how to control DATA step processing. They will learn how to create accumulating columns and process data in groups. The course primarily covers Base SAS software. Participants should already be familiar with using DATA step code to access data, subset rows and columns, calculate new columns, and conditionally process data.

In addition, participants should have knowledge of sorting tables with the SORT procedure and applying SAS format. This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of SAS programming basics, ensuring participants have a solid foundation in manipulating data.

Overall, this course is ideal for individuals who want to improve their skills in SAS programming and data manipulation. It offers in-depth training on various techniques and tools necessary for effective data processing.

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What You Will Learn

Learn how the DATA step processes data behind the scenes

Learn new syntax that enables you to alter the default behavior of the DATA step to solve a problem

Learn to use some new functions that enable you to manipulate numeric, date, and character values

Learn to use functions that change a column from one data type to another

Learn to create and use custom formats to enhance the way your data is displayed in a table or report

Learn to concatenate tables, merge tables, and identify matching and nonmatching rows

Learn to create an iterative DO Loop, then you learn to create conditional DO loops

Learn to restructure data with the DATA step. Then you learn to restructure data by using the TRANSPOSE procedure

Course Instructors

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Stacey Syphus

Senior Manager

Stacey Syphus is a Senior Manager in SAS Education. Since 2001, she has worked with hundreds of SAS customers to train both novice and expert SAS users. In addition to spending time in the classroom,...
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