In this course, you learn advanced techniques within the DATA step and procedures to manipulate data.
Advanced SAS Programming Techniques
This course is part of SAS Advanced Programmer Professional Certificate
Instructor: Michele Ensor
Sponsored by Coursera Learning Team
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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.
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5 videos4 readings1 assignment
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 assignments
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 assignments
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.
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19 videos3 readings10 assignments
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 assignments1 app item
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Reviewed on Dec 12, 2022
Amazing course! With some additional practice, I feel like I'll soon be ready to pass the exam :-)
Reviewed on Nov 14, 2020
The Course goes through detailed examples and practices to clarify the techniques and concepts, useful and efficient.
Reviewed on Oct 18, 2020
Passed SAS adv exam after taking this course. It's very useful.
Recommended if you're interested in Data Science
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