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LISA Short Course: Intro to SAS Part II
(Academic)
LISA SHORT COURSES IN STATISTICS
LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) is providing a series of evening short courses to help graduate students use statistics in their research. The focus of these two-hour courses is on teaching practical statistical techniques for analyzing or collecting data. See www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/?q=short_courses for instructions on how to REGISTER and to learn more. Refreshments will be provided at the end of each short course!
Remaining Spring 2011 Schedule:
February 22: Intro to SAS Part II*;
February 28 & March 1: Introduction to R*;
March 14 & 15: Bayesian Methods for Regression in R*;
*Course to be held in 3080 Torgersen Hall. Other courses will be in Fralin Auditorium
Tuesday, February 22;
Instructor: Mark Seiss;
Title: Intro to SAS Part II;
Course Information: The Intro to SAS short courses provide an introduction to SAS statistical software and is intended for people that have little or no experience using SAS. Part 2 of the two course series provides an overview of common procedures that can be used to summarize and analyze data. Procedures used to summarize data include those that generate descriptive statistics, plots, and frequency tables. Procdures used for statistical analysis include those that analyze correlation, association, ANOVA, linear regression, and logistic regression. This short course will be conducted in a computer lab and attendees will program the SAS code along with the instructor.
It is suggested, though not required, that you attend Intro to SAS Part I on February 21, 2011.
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