STA 5991L SAS Lab
Fall 2007 Syllabus

IMPORTANT!  For homework, I want you to include .sas, .log, .lst and graphs with your name in title.
 

Date                     Chapters                                               Topics___________________
1   Aug. 31             Ch 1,2    Introduction to Windows version of SAS.  Different Windows,
                                     write and submit simple programs, proc print, freq, graph.
                                     Proc formats for easier interpretation.    Example1_2new.sas
Exercises                                            Homework 1
 

2   Sept. 7             Ch 2, 12, 17  Graphs. Descriptive statistics for quantitative data using proc univariate
                                   and proc means, computing new variables,  z scores.  Modifying data sets.

Exercises            Homework 2

3   Sept. 14              Ch 6,13  T tests for 1 sample, paired samples and  independent samples.
                                          Outputting with ODS.  Reading in data from Excel.
                             Example Excel Data     Import_excel.sas Example 3 Program   Import_excel_w_var_names.sas
Exercises             Homework 3

      Sept. 21             NO CLASS -- Lightbulb out in Projector

4   Sept. 28             Ch 3, 5, 9   Cross tabulations.    Correlations, Linear Regression and relevant graphs.
                                         Saving residuals and testing for normality.
                                   Crosstabs Example                  Regression Example          Regression in Class
Exercises        Homework 4

5   Oct 12         Ch 7    One and Two  way ANOVA with post hoc tests for significant tests.
                                   Analyst option for analysis.
                         Oneway ANOVA data       Twoway ANOVA data           2way SAS program
                          One way in ClassTwo way in class
Exercises                Homework 5

********** EXTRA CLASS  ????*********
Oct. 19   Extra Class to return graded homework, help to finish homework.
                                 Will show Enterprise Guide if possible.