ST 590G: Computation for Data Analysis
John Monahan (email: monahan@stat.ncsu.edu)

Tuesday & Thursdays 10:15-11:30
SICL in SAS Hall, Room 1107
Prerequisities: ST 445 or SAS skills at Base SAS certification level
ST 430 (or concurrent)
To assess your SAS skill level, here's the ST445 Final Exam from 2008
final08.txt

Syllabus (pdf)
Bizarro cartoon
Ronald Cody tutorial on regular expressions
Norwegian Snow files (new)
sea snake files

Tentative list of topics (subject to change)
1) Basic simulation tools in SAS
2) Text/data parsing and analysis
3) Basics of macros and ODS
4) Automated data extraction
5) Further simulation tools

First Assignment -- due Thursday, 03 September 2009
Second Assignment -- due Thursday, 01 October 2009 www4.stat Weblogs
Third Assignment -- due Thursday, 12 November 2009

Class files
August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009