ST 445 Introduction to Statistical Computing and Data Management

 List of Topics

 data step and procs
 reading data, simple input, infile, datalines
 character/numeric variables, constants, functions
 inside data step: PDV, put, output, delete
 label, format, informat 
 proc means, class & by
 input: free format, column read, formatted read
 procs: univariate, plot, chart (g)
 multiple records to single observation
 single record to multiple observation
 reading spreadsheets: comma- and tab-delimited files
 putting datasets together: set, merge by, proc append
 permanent datasets
 date/time formats, user-written formats
 input, put functions 
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