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Advanced SAS Programming Techniques

This course is part of SAS Advanced Programmer Professional Certificate

Taught in English

Michele Ensor

Instructor: Michele Ensor

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4.8

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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
17 hours (approximately)
Flexible schedule
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Course

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

4.8

(84 reviews)

Intermediate level
Some related experience required
17 hours (approximately)
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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There are 5 modules in this course

In this module, you'll set up software and data for this course. Then you'll review the concepts of SAS DATA step processing and how to process data sets.

What's included

5 videos4 readings1 quiz

In this module, you'll use advanced functions to compare data between multiple rows in a SAS table, find and count substrings within a column, and clean and standardize data. You'll also explore CALL routines, Perl regular expressions, and how to use advanced functions to modify and analyze storm, weather, and population data.

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16 videos1 reading12 quizzes

In this module, you'll learn how to use arrays to simplify your code. You'll use arrays to process repetitive code, rotate data, and perform table lookups.

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18 videos1 reading11 quizzes

In this module, you'll learn how to declare a hash object, instantiate or create an instance of the object, and initialize its lookup keys and data. You'll use the hash object to store and retrieve data, create an output table from the data in the hash object, and create a hash iterator object to process the data in a particular order.

What's included

19 videos3 readings10 quizzes

In this module, you'll learn how to use PROC FORMAT's PICTURE statement to create a custom template to display large numbers, dates, and times. You'll also use PROC FCMP, the function compiler procedure, to create custom functions and CALL routines.

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12 videos1 reading9 quizzes1 app item

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4.8 (25 ratings)
Michele Ensor
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