Last updated: May 2, 1996

Statistical Workshop

(statistical analysis using SAS)

Geos. 599
2 units

(TBA) August 27, 1996 - November 1, 1996

First meeting:< br> Tuesday, August 27, 5 pm.,
Gould-Simpson Bldg., room 303

course registration number: 10701
(contact the instructor before you register)

This workshop will help students to develop practical skills in using one of the most powerful and exhaustive statistical software packages: SAS (Statistical Analysis System). Although this workshop will include discussion of some more theoretical topics in statistics, it will not substitute for a regular statistics course .

The workshop will meet once a week for 2 hours to discuss practical exercises in SAS-programming. The workshop will include weekly assignments and a final project. The project will be a statistical analysis (using SAS of course!) of any, but preferably the student's own, data set.

We will cover the following topics:

Data management (formatting data, data transfer; data-step in SAS; combining and appending data; data transformation and modification, SAS data sets and SAS libraries)
SAS/STAT-procedures (univariate, bivariate, and multivariate)
Programming in SAS and SAS-IML (use of macro-variables; randomization, bootstrap, etc.)
Presenting the results (graphs, tables, transfer of sas-outputs to PC or MAC environments)

No prerequisites are needed to take the workshop but a general knowledge of PC/MAC, VAX/UNIX, and internet environments as well as some basic understanding of statistical methods will be helpful.

Contact the instructor with questions or comments at:

Michal Kowalewski
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
tel: 626-6144 (or 621-6024) fax: 621-2672
e-mail: michalk@geo.arizona.edu

Comments or questions on this web page should be sent to
Michal Kowalewski at: michalk@geo.arizona.edu

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