STAT 7342 - Introduction to SAS

Three credit hours.

This course is designed to introduce students in all disciplines to conducting data analyses and managing data using the SAS system and SAS programming language. The basics of the SAS language and SAS data sets, reading SAS logs, viewing and printing output, inputting data into SAS, manipulating data and creating new variables using SAS procedures, generating descriptive statistics and frequency distributions using SAS Insight. Performing hypothesise tests and constructing confidence intervals, building categorical models, building and interpreting simple and multiple linear regression models, constructing ANOVA models using SAS procedures and Analyst.