Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
In this course, you will learn the SAS language, Statistical Analysis System, focused on statistical analysis in Social Sciences.
You will discover the SAS environment, the structure and the SAS programming language and finally, you will write programs.
The course is divided into two main parts
1. The DATA step
- Syntax of instructions, language elements;
- Input-Output statements;
- Creation and management of SAS files;
- Assignments and Expressions;
- Use of internal functions;
- Control structures: Repetition, conditional execution;
...
- Univariate analysis;
- Graphic representations;
- Independence test;
...
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Learning the SAS programming language and statistical analyses with this software.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Windows environment;
Navigation in Ecampus;
Using Winzip or equivalent.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Ex cathedra lectures;
Exercises during class sessions;
Exercises to prepare between sessions;
Summary exercises between the chapters.
Suggestion: To pass this course (like many others) you will have to: -1- be present in lessons; -2- take notes (active listening) and -3- read the slides during the year.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
The course is given in the first term for 2 hours per week in a room with 24 PCs.
There will be no podcast of this course (the interactive format of this teaching is not suitable for podcasting).
Recommended or required readings
All the slides will be available on the Ecampus platform from the first lecture.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Additional information:
Examination on SAS (on computer) organized in the computer rooms.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Instructor : Sébastien Fontaine
sebastien.fontaine@uliege.be