Updated June 5, 2009
EPI 514 (COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY a/k/a INTRODUCTION TO SAS)
TA FOR SPRING 2009: Jessica Nadeau
E-MAIL: jn695231@albany.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Monday 5:30-7:30 (after class), Thursday (2:00-4:00 (prior to class), and by appointment (make appointment by e-mail)
LOCATION: TA Office (room 142)
- REVISED CLASS SCHEDULE (READINGS, ASSIGNMENTS, TESTS)
- SAS WORKSHOP (ORIENTATION EXERCISES - HOW TO USE SAS)
- ON THE SAS WEB SITE
- SAS RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS
- SAS STUDENT NETWORK WEB SITE
- NOTES
- *** NEW REVISED NOTES FOR SPRING 2009 ***
- 1/INTRODUCTION (1-18)
- 2/PROGRAMS, DATA SETS, RULES (19-25)
- 3/READING DATA (26-50)
- 4/SELECTING AND RESTRICTING OBSERVATIONS (51-65)
- 5/SELECTING AND RESTRICTING VARIABLES (66-70)
- 6/PROCEDURES (71-102)
- NOTE: there are NO pages 103-124 as of yet
- 7/FORMATS (125-140)
- 8+9/DATES+FUNCTIONS (OLD NOTES)
- 10+11/REARRANGE+COMBINE (OLD NOTES)
- APPENDIX A-SAS OPERATORS
- APPENDIX B-DEFAULT SORTING ORDER OF CHARACTERS
- EXTRA NOTES
- OVERHEADS WITH RULES FOR CREATING AND USING FORMATS
- EXTRA NOTES + SAS CODE ON FIRST. AND LAST. VARIABLES
- EXTRA NOTES ON ARRAYS
- EXTRA NOTES + SAS CODE ON PROC TRANSPOSE + TRANSPOSE WITH DATA FROM CODY "LEARNING SAS BY EXAMPLES (CHAPTER 23)"
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- EXTRA EXAMPLES
- EXTRA PRACTICE FOR QUIZ #1
- READING RAW DATA (FORMATTED, COLUMN, LIST INPUT)
- MODIFIED EXAMPLE 3.14 FROM NOTES
- MODIFIED EXAMPLE 3.15 FROM NOTES
- FIRSTOBS AND OBS EXAMPLES (NOT IN NOTES)
- SAS CODE FOR ASSSIGNMENT 2
- INPUT WITH @ AND @@
- IF, WHERE, OUTPUT, DELETE, RETURN
- TASK/PROCEDURE/OPTIONS TABLE
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- PAPERS AND BOOK EXCERPTS
- DATA STEP ESSENTIALS
- MISSOVER, TRUNCOVER, AND PAD, OH MY!!
- CODY'S DATA CLEANING TECHNIQUES USING SAS SOFTWARE (CHAPTER 1)
- DATA CLEANING 101
- ANYONE CAN LEARN PROC TABULATE
- FREQ-OUT: AN APPLIED PRESENTATION OF THE OPTIONS/OUTPUT OF PROC FREQ
- TS-486 QUICK REFERENCE: FUNCTIONS, INFORMATS, FORMATS
- READING EXTERNAL DATA FILES USING SAS: EXAMPLES HANDBOOK (CHAPTER 1)
- DEBUGGING 101
- LINKS TO SAS-RELATED WEB SITES
- SAS Institute
- SAS System Viewer (look at contents of SAS data sets)
- SAS Documentation --- Links to Documentation by Product and Version
- SAS V9.1.3 Documentation (on-line in PDF format)
- SAS V9.1.3 Documentation (on-line in HTML format)
- What's New in SAS --- Versions 8.2 through 9.2
- SAS Press and SAS Documentation Example Code and Data
- SAS Online Resources for Statistics Education
- SAS Institute--1000+ Examples of SAS Code for a Variety of Tasks
- SAS Learning Edition ($199)
- SAS Institute Publishing (Buy Books, Sample SAS Code)
- Northeast SAS Users Group (with a link to papers from proceedings)
- JMP/IN Software (Student Edition of SAS JMP Software)
- Mayo Clinic-Biostatistics, SAS Macros
- The Missing Semicolon (newsletter)
- Papers from SUGI + SAS Global Forum Meetings (on SAS web site)
- Lex Jansen's Web Site (SUGI, NESUG, PharmaSUG Papers)
- Base SAS Tip Sheets
- LINKS TO SAS LEARNING SITES
- UCLA SAS Training/Consulting/Resouces
- UNC Population Center Topics in SAS Programming
- LINKS TO STATISTICS WEB SITES
- Statistics Tutorials Using SAS Software
- S-PLUS Student Version (FREE)
- STATSOFT Electronic Textbook
- HyperStat Online Textbook
- SurfStat Australia
- Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (used at UNC School of Public Health)
- Introductory Biostatistics
- Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences
- Biostatistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Common Statistical Errors and How to Avoid Them
- Categorical Data Analysis
- BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
- LEARN SAS
- "Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide" --- Ron Cody
- "The Little SAS Book (3rd edition)" --- Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter
- "The SAS Workbook" --- Ron Cody
- USING SAS
- "SAS Functions by Example" --- Ron Cody
- "Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software (2nd edition) --- Ron Cody
- "Professional SAS Programming Logic" --- Rick Aster
- "Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS Software" --- SAS
- "Reading External Data Files Using SAS: Examples Handbook" --- Michele M. Burlew
- "Output Delivery System: The Basics" --- Lauren Haworth
- "PROC TABULATE by Example" --- Lauren Haworth
- "Maps Made Easy Using SAS" --- Mike Zdeb
- "Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS Macro Language (2nd edition)" --- Art Carpenter
- HEALTH-RELATED
- "Health Care Data and SAS" --- Marge Scerbo, Craig Dickstein, and Alan Wilson
- "Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS Examples (2nd edition)" --- Glenn Walker
- STATISTICS
- "Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language (5th edition)" --- Ron Cody and Jeff Smith
- "SAS System for Elementary Statistical Analysis (2nd edition)" --- Sandra Schlotzhauer and Ramon Littell
- "Step-by-Step Basic Statistics Using SAS: Student Guide and Exercises" --- Larry Hatcher
- SAS CERTIFICATION
- SAS Certified Professional Program
- "SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9" --- SAS Institute
- SOFTWARE
- GET WINZIP (FREE EVALUATION VERSION)
- GET ULTRAEDIT (SHAREWARE TEXT EDITOR)
- GET METAPAD (FREE WINDOWS-BASED TEXT EDITOR)
- SERVICE PACKS FOR SAS V9.1.3
- Hot Fix Downloads for Windows
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