SAS Series: Combining and Updating Data Sets
Product Code: SAS609 Time: 5.0 hour(s) CEUs: Available

Summary:

This course presents various methods for combining and updating existing SAS data sets.

Objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Create new data sets through concatenating, interleaving or merging observations
  • Update a master data set with values from a transaction data set
  • Manipulate a SAS data set in place
  • Read a data set twice
  • Determine the source of an observation
  • Combine portions of data sets
  • Read only certain observations
  • Access observations nonsequentially

Topics:

  • Concatenating Data Sets
  • Interleaving and Merging Data Sets
  • Updating with UPDATE
  • Updating with MODIFY
  • Using Other Techniques

Technical Requirements:

200MHz Pentium with 32MB Ram. 640 x 480 256-color video (800 x 600 is recommended). Windows 98, NT, 2000, or XP. Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher required. (5.5 or higher for MindLeaders Central) Minimum Connection Speed: 28.8k. Sound card, with speaker or headphones is recommended, but not required to play the courses. Macromedia Flash Player 7.0 (Note: We do not recommend or support installation of the Yahoo toolbar.) JavaScript must be enabled. Netscape and AOL browsers not supported.

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