Stat 4910/6250 SAS Programming: Homework

Homework 9:

• Read Chapter 25, do problems 2, 4 bicycles.sas7bdat
• Read Chapter 26, do problems 5

Homework 8:

• Read Chapter 18, do problem 1, 2, 3, 6

• Read Chapter 19, do problem 4

• Read Chapter 20, do problems 8, 9

Project 2:

• Project2-2017.docx
• For problem 2 submit the proposal by Monday Nov. 13.

Homework 7:

• Read Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Guide and use Enterprise Guide to completed your rest of the assignments for the rest of the quarter.
• Read Chapter 16, do problems 1, 2, 3
  • college.sas
  • college.sas7bdat
• Read Chapter 17, do problem 5

Project 1:

• Project1-2017.docx
• 1987_top100.csv
• Extra Credit: Write program06.sas reading in all of the data files using one datastep. Use Sections 21.7 and 21.8, pages 446-447.
• Directory structure for the Airline data.
  • Lastname_Firstname_Stat4910_Project.zip
  • Lastname_Firstname_Stat6250_Project.zip
• Consider using the FILENAME statement. Read Page 34, and read pages 446-447 and 447-448. These pages in the book might give you an idea about how to make the Faculty Development Survey SAS code more readable.
• Reading .zip files directly into SAS, see this paper, Reading Compressed Text Files Using SAS Software
• How To Write a Statistics Report.doc

Homework 6:

• Read Chapter 14, do problems 2, 4
• Read Chapter 15, do problems 1, 4, 5
• From the Create_Datasets.sas file from the book files you can find the blood pressure data.
  • bloodpressure.sas
• From the Create_Datasets.sas file from the book files you can find the college data.
  • college.sas
  • college.sas7bdat
  • formats.sas7bcat

Homework 5:

• Read Chapter 11, do problems 1, 5, 8
• From the Create_Datasets.sas file from the book files you can find the Health and Psych data.
  • health.sas
  • psych.sas
• Read Chapter 12, do problems 2, 6, 13, 17
• Read Chapter 13, do problem 3
• From the Create_Datasets.sas file from the book files you can find the Mixed data. mixed.sas

Running SAS in batch mode:

• Download a free text editor and install the software.
• Open a SAS program into a text editor view a SAS program.
• Using Windows Explorer locate the program and run the SAS program by right-clicking and using Batch Submit with SAS 9.4.
• Load the .log and .lst files into a text editor.
• Try this a couple of times to get the feel for how this works.

Free text editors:

• Notepadd++
• NoteTab Lite
• Crimson Editor

Modern text editors:

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code
• atom

In order to get SAS language support in atom, you need to install the package. The directions are as follows:

1) Go to File and click on Settings or use Ctrl + Comma
2) On the left side click on Install
3) Type SAS in the search box and push Enter
4) It should be your top result
5) Go to the text file tab (probably named "untitled" unless you already named it)  and click the bottom right hand corner that states Plain Text and change it to SAS, add your code and you should see your code highlight much like the SAS IDE.

Homework 4:

• Read Chapter 8, do problems 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 13
• Read Chapter 9, do problems 8, 9
• Read Chapter 10, do problems 1, 2, 3
  • blood.txt
  • blood.sas
  • hosp_Suess.xls

Homework 3:

• Read Chapter 5, do problems 1, 2, 4
• Read Chapter 6, do problems 1
  • drugtest.xls
• Read Chapter 7, do problems 1

Homework 2:

• Read Chapter 3, do problems 1, 2, 7, 10
• Read Chapter 4, do problems 1, 2

Homework 1:

• Read Chapter 1, do problems 3, 4, 5
• Read Chapter 2, do problems 1, 2