STA 5065L SAS Lab            Fall 2010 Syllabus

IMPORTANT: For homework, I want all files --  .sas, .log, .lst and graphs
                         with your name in title on paper.  But print both sides and/or 2 pages per
                         physical page since there may be alot of output.
 

Date                     Chapters                                               Topics                                                                
1   Aug. 27            Ch 1,2    Introduction to Windows version of SAS.  SAS NOT WORKING IN LAB
                              Example1.sas           
 

2   Sept. 3             Ch 2, 3 (E,F), 12, 17  Different Windows,  write and submit simple programs, proc print, freq, graph.
                                            Proc formats for easier interpretation.    Graphs. Descriptive statistics for quantitative
                                            data using proc univariate
 and proc means, computing new variables,  z scores. 
                                            Modifying data sets.
              Example12.sas         
                                            
Exercises
           Homework 1,2
 

3   Sept. 10           Ch 6,13  T tests for 1 sample, paired samples and  independent samples.
                                            Outputting with ODS.  Reading in data from Excel.
                                            Example Excel Data     Import excel w var names.sas   Example3_in_class
Exercises             Homework 3      
 

4   Sept. 17           Ch 3, 5, 9   Cross tabulations.    Correlations, Linear Regression and relevant graphs.
                                            Saving residuals and testing for normality.
                                            Crosstabs Example          Crosstabs Example in Class
                                            Regression Example         Regression Example in Class
Exercises             Homework 4  
 

5   Sept. 24          Ch 7    One and Two  way ANOVA with post hoc tests for significant tests.
                                            Analyst option for analysis.
                                           Oneway ANOVA data           One way Example in Class
                                           Twoway ANOVA data           Two way Example in Class
Exercises            Homework 5   
 

****************            EXTRA CLASS                *****************************
6  Oct. 1   Extra Class to return graded homework, help to finish homework.
                 Will show Enterprise Guide if available.