SAS for beginners

​King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh (KSAU-HS) is pleased to announce the upcoming course “SAS for beginners” that will be in 17-19 March 2019, at College of Public Health & Health Informatics, KSAU-HS Riyadh KSA

Objectives:
This course is for SAS beginners who want to start learning SAS to manipulate and analyze their own data. The course discusses data management, descriptive statistics, Chi-Square test, t-tests, ANOVA, linear regression, logistic regression, and survival analysis concepts with an emphasis on top public health problems in Saudi Arabia

Learning Objectives:

• Reading Excel/SPSS file into SAS
• Manage and modify data variables
• Examine data distributions and quality
• Assess the reliability (internal consistency) of a questionnaire
• Generate descriptive statistics and explore data with graphs
• Create plots using ODS Statistical Graphics
• Use chi-square statistics to detect associations between categorical variables
• Perform tests of differences between two group means
• Perform analysis of variance and post-hoc multiple comparison techniques
• Fit and interpret multiple linear regression model
• Fit and interpret multiple logistic regression model
• Test whether survival curves across groups are different
• Test whether factor(s) associated with a higher hazard of event
• Learn how to design well-formed tables for publication

CME Hours will be provided

Registration Fee : SR 1200

Contact Us:

• REGISTRATION: +966 11 4295495
• EMAIL: ngcebhp@ksau-hs.edu.sa