Data Analysis Using SAS EG Syllabus

Data Analysis USING SAS EG

Summer Term 2014

Course Syllabus

 

(10 Units and 20 lecture hours)

 

CourseInformation

Instructor: Zhicao Luo

Instructor Blog:http://bolg.csdn.net/xmuecor

Email:zhichao.luo@gmail.com

QQ: 1814347.

Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30—3:30 N206, Economic Building, Xiamen University

Course Forums: http://www.rokia.org

 

CourseText and Supplements

The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide

The Little SAS Book A Primer(Fourth Edition)

SAS Training Kits: PROG I

Statistics(Fourth Edition), David A. Freedman

 

Grade: Your course grade will be computed as follows: 

 

Activity	Percent of Grade
Class Attendance	15%
Assigned Exercises	25%
Surveys	15%
Final Report	50%
Course Score	100%

 

 

Tentative Course Topics

 

Unit 1: Background knowledge

1.      Useful computer tools software

2.      Common data format

3.      Search engines and academic research database

4.      The difference between statistics software

5.      Data analysis VS Cooking

 

Unit 2 SAS Introduction

1.      SAS modules introduction

2.      SAS ENTERPRISE GUIDE introduction

3.      SAS program key points(PDV, INFORMAT)

4.      SAS learning routine

 

Unit 3 Data Preparation

1.      Description statistics VS sensibility ability to data

2.      Create SAS library

3.      Data import and export (CSV, TXT, EXCEL)

4.      Data manipulation skill (merge,split, subset, Sampling, Query Builder)

5.      One variable description statistics(Central tendency, dispersion, distribution, outlier, normality)

6.      Categorical variable description statistics(one-way frequency)

7.      Multi-variable description statistics(Scatter Plot, Table Analysis)

8.      Characterize Data

9.      Linear Transformation

10.  Graphics and report

 

Unit 4 Distribution

1.      Discrete Distribution(binomial, multinomial, Poisson, Hyper geometric )

2.      Continuous Distribution(Normal,Standard Normal, Chi-square, t, F, Uniform)

3.      Simulation of Central Limit Theorem

 

Unit 5 Simple Inference

1.      Estimation

2.      Hypothesis Testing

 

Unit 6 Correlation and Regression

1.      Correlation

2.      Contingency Table

3.      Regression

 

Unit 7 Regression Diagnostics

1.      Influential Observation

2.      Co linearity

3.      Residual Analysis

 

Unit 8 Logistics Regression

CASE study

 

Unit 9 ANOVA

CASE study

 

Unit 10 Analysis Project

 

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