Department of Statistics and Biostatistics

California State University, East Bay 

Fall 2011

Stat 4910: Advanced Statistical Package Usage

Stat 6250: SAS Programming

Course Description Homework Important Dates Statistics Software
Syllabus Handouts Virtual Computing Lab VCL Statistics Links
Blackboard     

Week 12:

  • Final Exam Monday Dec. 5, 2011, 8:00 - 9:50. 
  • Project 2 is due by Friday Dec. 9.

Week 11:

Week 10:

  • Homework 9 has been posted.
  • Project description TBA 
  • For the project, find a job description that you can think about when preparing your report from the data you have chosen.
    • Check out this ebay classified, Biotech, R&D, science job posting: Statistical Programmer II    Statistical Programmer II.docx
    • This above job description covers everything that you might think about working on for the project.  It even mentions CDISK, that was discussed last week at our BASAS meeting.
    • Here is another job description that is posted on the BASAS website: Statistical Programmer II
    • Note that this job description clearly asks for SAS Certifications.
  • From last weeks BASA meeting we heard a presentation from the President and CEO, Ale Gicqueau, of Clinovo. His company provide some open source SAS code for data mapping CDISK Express.  Please check it out, has great examples of SAS Macros.

 

 

 

  • Very interesting LinkedIn SAS Network discussion

Week 9:

  • Homework 8 has been posted.

Week 8:

  • Homework 7 has been posted.  Due Nov. 14.

Week 7:

Week 6:

  • Project 1 is now available and will be collected in two weeks on Wednesday November 9.  Project1.doc
  • Midterm Wednesday Oct. 27.  The midterm will cover up to Chapter 11.
  • Homework 5 has been split into Part a and Part b.  Part a includes problems from Ch. 11 only.  The Part b will be collected after the midterm.

Week 5:

  • Homework 5 has been posted.  Due Oct. 24.
  • Quiz 1 will be given at the beginning of class on Wed. Oct. 19.
  • The midterm will given in class Wed. Oct. 26.

Week 4:

  • Homework 4 has been posted.  Due Oct. 17

Week 3:

  • Homework 3 has been posted.  Due Oct. 10.

Week 2:

  • Homework 2 has been posted.  Due Oct. 3.
  • I am still working on understanding the new Blackboard Assignments and how assignments are turned in.  Hopefully I will have this figured out by Wed.
  • We will introduce the VCL in class tonight and use it in the computer lab in the second hour.

Week 1:

  • This week we will Introduce SAS.
  • Handout1 and Handout2 have been posted under the Handout link above.
  • Homework 1 has been posted.  Due Monday Sept. 26.
  • To turn in the Homework 1 assignments use the Digital DropBox in Blackboard.  You should turn in one file with your following filename:  Lastname_Firstname_hw1.doc

LinkedIn post:

  • Join the SAS Professional Forum Group in LinkedIn
  • Join the BASAS Group in LinkedIn

The data files for the book are available online.  Here is the email I sent to everyone about getting the files.

Hello everyone,

All of the data files are online. I forgot to mention that the website in mentioned on page 4 of the book.

http://support.sas.com/cody

Down the page on the right is the link to the information.

http://support.sas.com/publishing/authors/extras/60864_code.pdf

In that document is the link to the datafiles and information about how to install the files. Here is the link.

http://support.sas.com/publishing/bbu/zip/60864.zip

Week 0:

  • The book for the class is:  Learning SAS by Example, A Programmer's Guide, Ron Cody, SAS Press Series, 2007.  ISBN 978-1-59994-165-3