SAS Lesson Plans

The following emphasizes practical use of SAS in conjunction with Introductory Statistical Methodology concepts.

An alternative approach is to teach to pass the Base SAS Programming Certification Exam.

Two hours each.

SAS Part 1

 * Starting SAS, Running a SAS program
 * Opening Existing SAS Data sets
 * Viewing data files (PROC PRINT, PROC CONTENTS)
 * Data Entry, Working with Formats
 * Means
 * Frequencies (PROC FREQ)
 * Crosstabs (using PROC FREQ)
 * Elaborations on PROC Means
 * Working with the Result Explorer
 * Saving your work

SAS Part 2

 * Independent Samples T-Test (PROC TTEST)
 * Paired Sample T-Tests
 * Exploring options from Frequencies
 * Calculating new variables
 * Recoding variables – Tranform/Recode/Into different variable
 * Analyzing subsets of cases - if, where, subsetting if
 * Sorting Cases
 * BY Processing
 * TITLEs Comments, System Options (briefly, if time)
 * Other ways of reading data (fixed, text file data, if time)

SAS Part 3
Correlation (PROC CORR), graphs (plots and charts, PROC PLOT, PROC GPLOT), regressions (PROC REG)

SAS Part 4
Aggregating and merging data and more advanced multivariate analyses (PROC FACTOR, PROC GLM).

For further help
See SAS online documentation, SAS Examples, the resources listed on the Statistical Programming Services (Web section), The Little SAS Book (purple, second edition) on reserve. Getting Started with SAS, SAS Concise Glossary.

SAS Certification Essential Reading (draft reading plan for possible SAS Instruction program)