Note: Topic order is subject to change. Participants must sign up for the all sessions.

The following data management topics will be discussed in this workshop:

Simple arrays and multidimensional arrays.
Do loops and nested do loops.
Rearranging data from "wide" to "long" format and vice versa.
Leads and lags in a data set.
Changing the order of variables in a data set.
Creating numeric variables from character variables and vice versa.
Creating subsets of data.
Getting rid of duplicate observations.
Complex merging problems.
Summarizing data across cases. Diagnosing errors in SAS. Basic use and creation of simple macros covered.