PUBH 4141 - SAS Basics: A Statistical Software Primer for Health Professionals (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a powerful and flexible statistical software package. This course is designed for students interested in learning how to write basic SAS programs. It will introduce the student without any programming experience on navigating the SAS window environment; reading SAS logs and creating/editing SAS programs; inputting and outputting datasets, creating temporary and permanent datasets, merging and subsetting datasets, creating and managing variables with desired labels and formats, and debugging SAS programs. This course will also introduce basic descriptive and inferential statistical analysis in SAS. All topics are learned through hands-on step-by-step demonstration videos about data preparing and statistical analysis on real life data sets. And student learning is enhanced though practical labs and project on real life data sets.

Cross Listing(s): PUBH 7141