Free SAS, Data Analytics and Statistics Tutorials

SAS Tutorials on 9to5sas are designed for SAS programmers, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, and all the readers who want to learn SAS and need to transform raw data to produce insights for business decisions using SAS.

Why SAS?

Being SAS Professional I can tell you why SAS. I would say, its bit tiny subject however very Unique, competitive and leading within the analytics world. SAS is the main statistic tool certified by the FDA, IIRC.

SAS is Statistical Analysis System i.e. a collection of software program tools created by SAS Institute. SAS programming has numerous applications like the analysis of multivariates, predictive analysis, management of data and business intelligence.

Statistics show that 70% of analytics jobs are in SAS Programming, followed by R and then Python. It is an ever-evolving technology according to industry needs is one major factor in its favour.

SAS tutorials for Beginners

The following articles/blog posts are for beginners who have no programming background or new to SAS programming language. Start with fundamentals of SAS and slowly you will find yourself comfortable in. SAS. It’s that easy to learn and master.!!

Topics

Introduction to Base SAS Programming
History of SAS
How to learn SAS Programming online for free?
Downloading and installing SAS Studio
SAS on Demand
Base SAS Tutorials
Getting Data in SAS
Working with SAS Libraries
Data Set Options
SET Statement
Variable Conversions in SAS
IF-Then-Else Statements
Loops
WHERE Statement in SAS
Character Functions
Numeric Functions
Compare Function
Compress Function in detail
Comparison Operator
Automatic Data Step Variables
Formats and Informats
Retain Statement
Date Formats
Proc Sort
Proc Print

Advanced SAS: Proc SQL
Proc SQL

SQL SET Operators
Advanced SAS: SAS Macros

SAS Macros for beginners

Creating Macro variables from SAS datasets
SAS Macro Quoting Functions

SAS Advanced Programming Concepts

Creating User-Defined Formats – Proc Format
SAS Picture Formats
Table Lookup Techniques in SAS
SAS Arrays
Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Records-(SAS data step and Arrays)
Proc Transpose
Proc Rank
Combining SAS Data Sets Vertically
Index in SAS
Fuzzy Matching in SAS

SAS Analytics

Business Analytics Overview
Proc Means
Proc Freq
Proc Univariate
Proc Tabulate

Statistics Tutorials

Descriptive Statistics in SAS
Central Limit Theorem
Confidence Interval for the population mean
Basics of hypothesis testing
How to choose a statistical testing
Proc TTEST