From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research

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From the course: SAS Essential Training: 1 Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research

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SAS essential training: Descriptive analysis

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- Hi! It's Monika Wahi here. Please allow me to welcome you to this course, SAS Essential Training: Descriptive Analysis for Healthcare Research. In this course, I'll walk you through how to use SAS to conduct a descriptive analysis of a health survey data set. I'll show you how to conduct univariate and bivariate analysis and how to present your results in plots and tables. SAS has been famous for years, literally decades, for being the top software package that can handle big data. The data set we are going to use for demonstration has over 450,000 records in it. SAS has historically been the only package that could handle all that data, but now, with advances in technology, other software packages are catching up. But SAS has always been king, because it was the first. And that has other advantages. Because SAS has been around so long, the company has added many different features to it. Many different procs and functions. We'll go over what a SAS proc is in this course. I assume it stands for procedure. Also, given SAS's popularity, it has been a standard in industry and government since the 1960s, when it was created. If you work in an analytics shop, you might as well expect to have SAS and SAS users somewhere in that shop. SAS is famous both inside and outside healthcare. I'm an expert in health analytics, but I've seen it used in other industries. I've helped people with models in the finance industry using SAS. So I know they use it in fintech. I've seen it used in many ways in engineering and manufacturing. I myself have used SAS to analyze server performance when using, you guessed it, big data. And I've been at statistical conferences where I've run into people who work in space and climate who use it for predictions. But my expertise is in using SAS for health data analysis. So that's what this course series is about. Historically, SAS has been the main tool used for all health data analysis. But, this is slowly changing now, because there are new competitors on the scene. We use SAS for health policy analysis, we use it for clinical trials, like when trying to get a new drug approved at the Food and Drug Administration, and of course, we use it for my favorite thing, which is public health. In fact, that's exactly what I'm going to demonstrate for you in this course. I'm going to walk you through a descriptive health data analysis in SAS that would be done as part of public health surveillance. So, how are you feeling? Are you feeling SAS-sy? I am. So let's get started. And I hope you enjoy the SAS course.

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