Introduction to SAS, overview of base SAS software, data management facility, how SAS works, reading raw data into SAS, writing your first SAS program, reading data from a dataset, SAS informats and formats, SAS functions Unix-SaS, an introduction to arrays and array processing, by - group processing, overview of methods for combining SAS data sets, SAS procedures, introduction to proc sql, an introduction to SAS macros, the output delivery system (ods), & introduction to diagnosing and avoiding errors.