- Overview of SAS in pharma industry
- Data Steps Statements involving usage of input, output, Import, Export, WHERE, SET, Merge, KEEP, DROP, ATTRIB, Format, Label, etc.
- SQL Statements in SAS, SELECT, CASE, JOIN, UNION, Sorting Data
- Various option in reading input data files of various formats and understanding of MISSOVER, PAD, Delimiter, DLM, Delimiter DSD
- Create output files in SAS, EXCEL, ASCII formats
- Create analysis output in ASCII, RTF, PDF, HTML
- SAS Operators – Arithmetic, Logical, Comparison
- SAS Functions – NUMERIC, CHARACTER, IS NULL, CONTAINS, LIKE, Input/Put, Date/Time
- Conditional Statements: Do While, Do Until, If, Then, Else, etc.
- Data handling procedures: PROC PRINT, SORT, COPY, DATASET, SORT, EXPORT, DATASET, TRANSPOSE, etc.
- Basic SAS/STAT Procedures: UNIVARIATE, FREQ, MEANS, SUMMARY, CORR, RANK,
- SAS Macros: Syntax, Variables, Positional Parameters
- SAS Graphs: PROC GCHART, Bar Charts, Pie, Bar, 3D, plotting variables with PROC GPLOT.
- PROC REPORT and its various options
- Titles and Footnotes
- Overview of CDISC SDTM and ADaM
Sas Statistical Programmer Entry level Training Curriculum
ATTENTION :
- Entry level training is same for planning SAS career in any industry whether pharma, finance, insurance, etc.
- Extensive practice is required in usage of data steps, input/output, SAS functions, and macros
