SAS Boot Camp – November 2018

for VU and VUMC graduate and professional students, faculty, and staff members

This introduction to SAS University Edition hands-on workshop shows how one can use the menu driven tasks and SAS code in SAS University Edition 4.3 to perform common reporting and research tasks: querying, reporting, and analyzing data. Several statistical procedures will be used to analyze data and produce reports. SAS University Edition provides a SAS graphical point-and-click interface as well as code that helps you exploit the power of SAS and publish dynamic results in a Microsoft Windows client application. Demonstrations in the presentation will use research type data and tasks in illustrating the functionality of SAS University Edition.

 Learn how to In this course you will learn to access your data, combine tables, compute new variables, explore data with simple statistics and graphs, and perform sophisticated statistical analyses with SAS University Edition. This course does not teach statistical concepts, but teaches how to use these tools in SAS University Edition.

DATE
Friday, November 2

TIME
9am to 5pm (with hour-long break for lunch)

LOCATION
MPH Classroom #2600, Village at Vanderbilt (1500 21st Avenue South)

REQUIRED MATERIALS

• Laptop

• SAS University Edition (free, commercial grade license)