Applied Statistical Computation with SAS

Catalog description

This course teaches the basics of SAS (Statistical Analysis System) programming and the SAS Enterprise Miner software. This course is composed two modules. The first module, in the first 12 weeks, covers the objectives tested on the SAS Base Programming for SAS 9 Exam, including basic SAS programming concepts, producing reports, creating and modifying SAS data sets, reading various types of raw data and other data handling techniques. At the end of module 1, all the students will take the SAS Base Programming for SAS 9 Exam, which is administered by the MPS Program in Applied Statistics on the Cornell campus in conjunction with the SAS Institute, Inc. The second module, in the last three weeks, introduces the SAS Enterprise Miner software and cluster analysis. Students will learn how to use the SAS Enterprise Miner software and SAS procedures to do cluster analysis. Students should have taken a basic statistics course prior to enrolling in this course.