STA 5065L SAS Lab            Fall 2011 Syllabus

IMPORTANT!  For homework, I want you to include .sas, .log, .lst and graphs
                         with your name in title.
 

Please hand in HW to my mailbox outside of DM404.  I will grade, email you
and you can pick it up from the large brown envelope outside my office door.

Date                     Chapters                                               Topics                                                                
1   Sept 16            Ch 1,2    Introduction to Windows version of SAS.  Different Windows,
                                            write and submit simple programs, proc print, freq, graph.
                                            Proc formats for easier interpretation.    Example1and 2.sas    Example1 from class
Exercises             Homework 1        Homework1_program
 

2   Sept. 23             Ch 2, 3 (E,F), 12, 17  Graphs. Descriptive statistics for quantitative data using proc univariate
                                            and proc means, computing new variables,  z scores.  Modifying data sets.
                                            
Example2                    Example 2 from class      
Exercises
             Homework 2       Homework2_program
 

3   Sept. 30           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   Example 3 from class
Exercises             Homework 3       Homework3 program
 

4   Oct.  7           Ch 3, 5, 9   Cross tabulations.    Correlations, Linear Regression and relevant graphs.
                                            Saving residuals and testing for normality.
                                            Crosstabs Example          Crosstabs Example from class
                                            Regression Example         Regression Example from class
Exercises             Homework 4     Homework4 program
 

5   Oct. 14          Ch 7    One and Two  way ANOVA with post hoc tests for significant tests.
                                            Analyst option for analysis.
                                           Oneway ANOVA data           Oneway_ANOVA     Oneway Example from Class
                                           Twoway ANOVA data           Twoway ANOVA  
                                                      
Exercises            Homework 5     Homework5 program
 

****************            EXTRA CLASS                *****************************
6  Oct.  21   Extra Class to return graded homework, help to finish homework.
                     Will show Enterprise Guide if available.