UCL - Seminar in data management: basic

[STAT2360]

[7.5h + 10h] 6 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Catherine Legrand

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the end of this course, the student will master the programming in SAS/Base and will be able to apply its skills on big and complicated data sets.

Main themes

- Introduction to the SAS system and to SAS/Base programming.
- Creation and manipulation of datasets with SAS: importing and exporting datasets, format definition, table merging, variable manipulation, creation and transformation.
- Preparation of summary tables, preparation of reports in different formats (txt, html...)
- Presentation of the " SAS base programming " certificate.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

- A big part of the student training is based on the e-learning tool " SAS tutor ".

- This course is only open to students of the masters in statistics and having a good passive English knowledge.