Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide is a user-friendly, point-and-click Windows client interface that provides quick access to the analytic power of SAS. This hands-on session will provide an introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide for use in teaching and research. The course will overview its analytical capabilities before demonstrating data exploration, analysis and reporting by example using SAS Enterprise Guide.

Course Outline:

This free session is open to all participants at the NZSA 2009 conference, and all academic staff within Victoria University.

• Date and time: 4 September 2009, 9am
• Duration: 3 hours
• Location: Cybercommons room Kirk 217
• Registration: Please email richard.arnold@msor.vuw.ac.nz if you would like to attend

Description

SAS Enterprise Guide is a user-friendly, point-and-click Windows client interface that provides quick access to the analytic power of SAS. This hands-on session will provide an introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide for use in teaching and research. The course will overview its analytical capabilities before demonstrating data exploration, analysis and reporting by example using SAS Enterprise Guide.

Prerequisite skills

This course is designed for end users with no programming experience or SAS knowledge. Before attending this course, you should be familiar with Windows and other software, such as Microsoft Office or spreadsheet programs. Familiarity with basic statistics is required, including p-values, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression.

Course topics

Getting Started

• Introducing SAS Enterprise Guide

Overview of Statistical Tasks

Data Exploration, Analysis and Reporting by Example

• Inserting Data and Notes
• Data Exploration
• Joining Data Tables
• Correlation Analysis
• Regression Analysis
• Reporting Using the Document Builder
• Subsetting Data and Analysis of Variance