Prerequisite: course in statistics and experience with Microsoft Windows.
Course Description:STAT 501 is the first of three one-credit courses on the SAS System that are given in sequence during one
semester. This course reviews the data management tools in SAS and some statistical tools that are
components of Base SAS. The second course, STAT 502, focuses on SAS/GRAPH. The third course,
STAT 503, focuses on the SAS Macro Language. Each one-credit course has five weekly meetings.
This one-credit course provides an introduction to the SAS Software System for graduate students preparing
to take courses from the Statistics Department. Many applied statistic courses offered by the Statistics
Department involve significant work with SAS and it is important to guarantee that students have
prerequisite preparation in SAS. The courses that utilize STAT 501 as a prerequisite introduce use of the
powerful SAS procedures specific to the applied course. It is important that students taking these courses
have basic literacy in the SAS System so that instructors do not use time teaching prerequisite material
outside of their syllabuses.
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