Introduction to Data Management and Programming in SAS for Public Health
This class is an introduction to the use of the SAS programming language for managing, cleaning and analyzing biomedical data.
Topics
- By the end of this course, students should be able to write SAS programs for data management, cleaning, and analysis
- Create and run SAS programs ● Read raw input files in various formats and create SAS datasets. ● Manipulate and transform data ● Create new variables from other data. ● Use basic SAS procedures to describe data numerically and graphically. ● Work with SAS datasets: sort, subset, merge, and re-format SAS datasets ● Use SAS procedures for basic statistical inference: Chi-square tests, T-Tests, Correlations, Linear Regression, etc. ● Export SAS datasets
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Prerequisites & course information
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Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027