MATH 381 - Computing for Statistics: SAS Programming Language

Unit(s): 2

Students will learn how to write SAS programs in order to perform data management tasks, statistical analysis, and to generate summary graphs and SAS reports. Topics include essential programming concepts (the environment and steps); typical data processing tasks; data management techniques (working with SAS libraries and different types of data, data set input and output, validation, merging, and subsets); statistical analyses (descriptive statistics, histograms and bar charts,k analysis of variance, regression analysis); and generation of SAS reports.

Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in MATH 265 or concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.