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Course Outlines

Fall 2018 - STAT 642 G100

Introduction to Statistical Computing and Exploratory Data Analysis - SAS (2)

Class Number: 4654

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 4 – Dec 3, 2018: Thu, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 5, 2018
    Wed, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    STAT 285 or STAT 302 or STAT 305 or BUEC 333 or equivalent. Open only to students in departments other than Statistics and Actuarial Science.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduces the SAS statistical package. Data management; reading, editing and storing statistical data; data exploration and representation; summarizing data with tables, graphs and other statistical tools; and data simulation. Students with credit for STAT 340 or STAT 342 may not take STAT 642 for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

Course Outline:

SAS component

  1. What is SAS?
      - Downloading and installing
      - Overview of the system
  2. Data management in SAS
      a. Data input and structures
          - DATA step
          - Reading specially formatted files
          - Date/time/character formats and manipulations
          - Derived variables
          - Exporting
      b. Data access: from database systems using query languages
      c. Merging and reshaping data
          - sorting/subsetting (set/if/where statements)/ merging/transposing
          - processing using DO LOOPS and SAS arrays
          - modify variable attributes
  3. Data exploration and representation in SAS
          - basic procs (print, plot, tabulate, means, univariate, freq)
          - by statement and uses in analysis and simulation
          - output delivery system to extract information from analyses
  4. Data simulation in SAS

Grading

  • Term Test 50%
  • Final Exam 50%

NOTES:

Above grading is subject to change.

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Required Text:

SAS and R, Data Management, Statistical Analysis, and Graphics, 2nd ed, by Ken Kleinman and Nicholas J. Horton, Publisher: CRC Press

Hard Copy ISBN: 9781466584495
eBook ISBN: 9781466584501
eBook Rental ISBN: 9781466584501

Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

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