MSUG - Michigan SAS Users
Group
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Michigan SAS Users Group!
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Join us for our NEXT MEETING- a 1-Day SAS Conference!
Date: April 27, 2010
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Place:VisTaTech Center
Schoolcraft College
18600 Haggerty Rd.
Livonia, MI 48152Cost: The conference early registration fee of $90 (on or before April 16) includes breakfast and lunch! Regular conference registration (after April 16) will cost $120.
Registration for the conference and class will open shortly!
Agenda:
PROC TABULATE: Getting Started and Doing More - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants
Simple Tests of Hypotheses for the Non-statistician: What They Are and Why They Can Go Bad - Art Carpenter
Programming for Job Security: Maximize Your Indispensability - Become a Specialist - Art Carpenter
Scalability of Table Look-up Techniques - Rick Langston, SAS
Creating SAS® Data Sets from HTML Table Definitions - Rick Langston
An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS - Vince DelGobbo, SAS
Enhancements to Proc PHREG (Survival Analysis) in SAS 9.2 - Brenda Gillespie, University of Michigan
Kathy Welch from the University of Michigan will be speaking, as well- topic will be announced soon.
In addition, Art Carpenter, author of "Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS Macro Language" and "Carpenter's Complete Guide to the PROC REPORT Procedure", and a frequent presenter at SAS Global Forum and other Regional and Local User Group meetings, will be teaching his popular classes, "Advanced Reporting and Analysis Techniques: It's Not Just About the PROCs!" on Monday, April 26 at the VisTaTech Center, and "From %Macro to %MEND: An Introduction to the SAS Macro Language" on Wednesday, April 26 at the same location. Each full-day class will run from 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, and the fee for each class is $345. Group discounts are available- if at least 3 people from the same company wish to register, the cost will be $295 per class per attendee.
Advanced Reporting and Analysis Techniques for the SAS® Power User: It's Not Just About the PROCs!There are literally hundreds of techniques used on a daily basis by the users of SAS® software as they perform analyses and generate reports. Although often obscure, most of these techniques are relatively easy to learn and generally do not require specialized training before they can be implemented. Unfortunately a majority of these techniques are used by only a very small minority of the analysts and programmers. They are not used more frequently, because a majority of SAS users have simply not been exposed to them. Left to ourselves it is often very difficult to ‘discover’ the intricacies of these techniques and then to sift through them for the nuggets that have immediate value. This one day course presents a series of those nuggets. It covers a broad range of SAS topics that have proved to be useful to the intermediate and advanced SAS programmer that is involved with the analysis and reporting of data. The intended audience is expected to have a firm grounding in Base SAS. For most of the covered topics, the course will introduce useful techniques and options, but will not ‘teach the procedure’.
From %Macro to %MEND: An Introduction to the SAS Macro Language
This one day course is designed for students with a good understanding of the DATA and PROC steps and who already understand the basic structure and syntax of the SAS Macro Language. The course will start with a short review of the macro basics and quickly move on topics selected to improve your macro language expertise. Several key macro functions will be introduced, explained and demonstrated. Course topics include: Macro Language Review; Macro Functions, Using and Creating; Writing Dynamic Code; Controlling Your Environment; Working With SAS Data Sets; Using SAS Macro Libraries; and Miscellaneous Macro Topics. Learn how the macro language thinks as you use it to write your programs.
ATTENTION STUDENTS! We will also be awarding up to 3 student scholarships, which will cover the cost of the conference registration. If you are a student and would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please download a scholarship application form.
Registration for the conference and class will open shortly!