How to Use SAS - Lesson 1 - The SAS Interface

Mike's SAS Tutorials Lesson 1

This video series is intended to help you learn how to program using SAS for your statistical needs. Lesson 1 introduces the SAS window, it's various environments and what each environment does. I also provide some basic code to create a data set, make a new variable & assign it a value, and then run the print procedure (PROC PRINT) to see what the values are of each variable in the specified data set.

Helpful Notes:

Here are the five primary "environments" that SAS uses:

1. RESULTS: where output is shown in tree structure
2. EXPLORER: the interfacing environment between SAS and your computer
3. OUTPUT: the output of your code
4. LOG: the "middle-man" between you and the SAS system
5. EDITOR: where you type your code

Today's Code:

data main;
x = 1;
y = 2;
run;

proc print data=main;
run;

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[vpatelize]

Hello sir,

Is it possible in SAS to subtract, add and multiply data with some numbers and subtract one raw of data from other raw of data in tables?

[mbate001]

@vpatelize I just uploaded a video on this topic yesterday. Check out my channel videos for "How to Use SAS - Lesson 6 - SAS Arithmetic and Variable Creation"

[jjkhawaiian]

There's no way to increase the font size in SAS?

One cumbersome suggestion to improve video is to get a bigger monitor as 2nd output and taking output from that to a digi video recorder or record the screen output analogally(?). Make sure to run your mic to the video recorder to auto-sync to video.

OR zoom certain sections in video editing software. That would take some time, but better than the above suggestion.

BTW, Great vid!

My Dad is a SAS senior analyst, I'm virgin :P

[mbate001]

@jjkhawaiian I've fixed up the font size in the third-rest lessons. Lessons 1 and 2 are a little smaller but if you increase resolution to 1080p, should be legible. The videos were all recorded on a 47 inch LCD tv as primary monitor, it's the actual SAS font size and recording software that made it small.

Does your dad actually work at SAS institute? If so, I'm majorly jealous!

[workh4rd]

Anyone know any good advanced SAS videos or SAS forums? I need to interact with more people who are in SAS related fields. If you want the same please message me. I believe that will improve SAS skills a lot more than learning it alone.

[mbate001]

@workh4rd Sorry, I should've responded to this earlier. UCLA ATS has some pretty amazing tutorials for more advanced topics using SAS, STATA, and R. Try Google > SAS UCLA ATS and it should be top hit.

[vpatelize]

Hello mbate001, thanks for your lesson 6. i am in analytical filed and using sas for statistical analysis. i took reading from my experiments and get those data in to sas program. i need to find out geometric mean, % geometric standard deviation, 95% CI, 95% LCL and UCL. Is this possible to calculate using SAS? if yes can you upload a video?

I appreciate your help.

Thanks

[vpatelize]

Thank you mbate001, your videos are so helpful. Thanks a lot.

[jjkhawaiian]

@mbate001 I noticed that in lesson 3 vid, thanx.

My Dad is a contract worker for different agencies working at companies from Motorola to Ebay to Genentech. He's been doing for years and making a pretty good living at it. Although he gets no benefits like stock or medical coverage, he gets a great hourly wage.

He did attend the SAS institute and is certified.

[workh4rd]

@mbate001 Thanks!