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B029678 - WORKSHOP IN SAS
Principali informazioni
Lingua Insegnamento
Contenuto del corso
Libri di testo consigliati
Obiettivi Formativi
Prerequisiti
Metodi Didattici
Altre Informazioni
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Programma del corso
Anno Accademico 2019-20
Anno di corso
Secondo Anno - Secondo Semestre
Dipartimento di Afferenza
Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa
Tipo insegnamento
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Settore Scientifico disciplinare
SECS-S/01 - STATISTICA
Crediti Formativi
3
Ore Didattica
24
Periodo didattico
24/02/2020 ⇒ 29/05/2020
Frequenza Obbligatoria
No
Tipo Valutazione
Giudizio Finale
Contenuto del corso
mostra
Programma del corso
mostra
Docenza
Lingua Insegnamento
INGLESE
Contenuto del corso
SAS is an integrated software for advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analysis. This workshop introduces the basic elements of the SAS Software useful to write SAS programs to access, explore, prepare, and analyse data.
Libri di testo consigliati (Cerca nel catalogo della biblioteca)
Cody R. (2015). An Introduction to SAS® University Edition, Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
Additional references:
SAS Institute Inc. (2019). SAS® Certified Specialist Prep Guide: Base Programming Using SAS® 9.4. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc. OpenIntro Labs (https://www.openintro.org/stat/labs.php?stat_lab_software=SAS)
Further material will be suggested during the workshop.
Additional references:
SAS Institute Inc. (2019). SAS® Certified Specialist Prep Guide: Base Programming Using SAS® 9.4. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc. OpenIntro Labs (https://www.openintro.org/stat/labs.php?stat_lab_software=SAS)
Further material will be suggested during the workshop.
Obiettivi Formativi
By the end of this course, you will know how to use SAS Studio to write and submit SAS programs that access SAS, Microsoft Excel, and text data. You will know how to explore and validate data, prepare data by subsetting rows and computing new columns, analyze and report on data, export data and results to other formats
Prerequisiti
Students should have experience using computer software. Specifically, you should be able to understand file structures and system commands on your operating systems and access data files on your operating systems. No prior SAS experience is needed.
Metodi Didattici
Lectures and lab sessions
Altre Informazioni
The students will need their laptop with the free version of SAS installed, i.e. the SAS University Edition (https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/university-edition.html).
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
The objective of the final exam is to test students' practical skills acquired during the workshop. The final exam will be a set of exercises and problems to be solved using SAS.
Programma del corso
Introduction to the SAS University Edition. The SAS Studio Interface. Importing Your Own Data. Creating Reports. Summarizing Data Using SAS Studio. Graphing Data. An Introduction to SAS Programming. Reading Data from External Files. Reading and Writing SAS Data Sets. Creating Formats and Labels. Performing Conditional Processing. Performing Iterative Processing: Looping. Working with SAS Dates. Subsetting and Combining SAS Data Sets. Describing SAS Functions. Working with Multiple Observations per Subject. Describing Arrays. Displaying Your Data. Summarizing Data with SAS Procedures. Computing Frequencies.