LISA SHORT COURSES IN STATISTICS
LISA (Virginia Tech's 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.

Summer 2013 Schedule:
Monday, June 10: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Using AMOS;
Monday, June 17: Designing Experiments and Collecting Useful Data*;
Monday, June 24 & Tuesday, June 25: Basics of R;
Monday, July 1 & Tuesday, July 2: Statistical Analysis in R;
Monday, July 8 & Tuesday, July 9: Graphing with R;
Monday, July 15: SAS Programming I;
Tuesday, July 16: SAS Programming II;
Monday, July 22: Model selection in R featuring the lasso;
*This course will be held in Fralin Auditorium, all other courses are in 3060 Torgersen Hall.

Monday, July 15, 5:15-7:15 pm;
Instructor: Matthew Lanham;
Location: 3060 Torgersen Hall;
Title: SAS Programming I;
This short course is part I of a two-part series in SAS programming. I will provide a brief background of SAS and highlight the similarities and differences to other software packages and languages. I will explain several main components of SAS, demonstrate how to load and manipulate data with the DATA step, and employ several basic procedure to summarize and analyze data.

Topics:
1) Is SAS for me?
2) SAS components (Explorer, Editor, Output, and Log)
3) The IMPORT Wizard
4) DATA step
5) Combining data sets
6) Basic Procedures(PROC UNIVARIATE, PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, PROC SUMMARY, PROC CORR, PROC REPORT)

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Location:	3060 Torgersen Hall
Price:	Free
Contact:	Tonya Pruitt lisa@vt.edu 540-231-8354
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