BSTA 515 Data Management & Analysis in SAS

This course is designed for students who want to develop and expand their skills in data management, statistical analyses and graphics for the real world applications using SAS. The course will give students opportunities to build their data management programing skills from basic to advanced levels in SAS. As part of the course competencies, students will have chance to learn how to export SAS data sets and create ODS files for Microsoft Excel. Students will have chance to build their analysis skills from basic to advanced levels using SAS. The class will be taught in a computer lab in order to give the student hand on experience using SAS to manage data, perform analyses and produce graphs. Class sessions and homework will be oriented around particular data management and analysis tasks. Health-related data sets will be provided for students to practice. This course could be extremely helpful in preparation for thesis, capstone or other research projects.