SAS Lesson Plan for SAS Certification

(A brief listing of topics)

SAS in 10 sessions (approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes each)

To prepare for the SAS Base Programming Exam (See SAS Certification).

1 Running a SAS Program (and the SAS Windows Environment)

PROC FREQ, PROC PRINT, PROC CONTENTS

2 Working with SAS Files (INFILE, INPUT, SET)

Details of the SAS data step (PUT, IF, creating new variables), Introduction to Formats

3 Creating a basic report of a dataset (PROC REPORT)

Miscellaneous Procedures (SORT, MEANS, CORR), optional output

4 ODS HTML (for nice looking output), TITLEs, FOOTNOTEs

Functions and looping on a SAS Datastep, logical expressions

5 PROC REG

BY statement uses, PROC MEANS; CLASS versus BY

6 Saving Datasets (LIBNAME etc.)

Reading more complex Text files (Informats), character string variables

7 Working with Date and Time Values

PROC PLOT, GPLOT

8 Merging Datasets

Managing variables (DROP, KEEP, RENAME, LENGTH, LABEL)

9 SAS Arrays

PROC TRANSPOSE, variable lists

10 Other PROCs, methods of data exploration

Review