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Pre-conference TrainingMaximize your conference learning opportunity by attending Pre-Conference training courses, taught by experienced, professional SAS trainers. To register for these courses, click the appropriate boxes when registering. All courses will be held at the conference hotel. The cost for each half-day course is $175 and a full-day course is $325. While NESUG processes the registration for these courses, all course content and delivery is the sole responsibility of the training provider. Seating may be limited. Training providers reserve the right to cancel one or more of these workshops. For all courses, registration closes 30 minutes prior to class.
Introduction to the SAS Business Inteligence Tools Ben Cochran,The Bedford Group Overview: This course is intended to get the student familiar with these tools and gain a general working knowledge of each. This is not intended to be an in-depth coverage of these tools.
Instructor's bio: Ben Cochran has been teaching SAS courses since he joined SAS Institute as an instructor in 1985. While at the Institute, Ben not only taught and wrote courses, but he was also the marketing manager for the SAS/EIS product. In the fall of 1996, he started his own SAS training and consulting company, The Bedford Group. As an affiliate member of the SAS Alliance, Ben has been involved in many teaching and consulting projects over the last 12 years. Since 1988, Ben has been a frequent presenter at SUGI, SAS Global Forum and many Regional User Group Conferences. SAS Macro Programming Tips and Techniques Overview: The SAS Macro Language is a powerful tool for extending the capabilities of the SAS System. This seminar presents numerous tips and tricks in the construction of effective macros. Attendees learn how to process statements containing macros; replace text strings with macro variables; generate SAS code using macros; combine macro variable references with text; manipulate macro variable values with macro functions; compile and execute a compiled macro; handle global and local variables; construct arithmetic and logical expressions; use macro quoting functions; interface the macro language with other languages including the DATA step and SQL procedure; store and reuse macros; troubleshoot and debug macros; and develop efficient and portable macro language code. Instructor's bio: Kirk Paul Lafler is consultant and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation and has been programming in SAS since 1979. As a SAS Certified Professional and SAS Institute Alliance Member (1996 – 2002), Kirk provides IT consulting services and training to SAS users around the world. As the author of four books including PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS (SAS Institute. 2004), Kirk has written more than two hundred peer-reviewed papers and articles that have appeared in professional journals and SAS User Group proceedings. He has also been an Invited speaker at more than two hundred SAS International, regional, local, and special-interest user group conferences and meetings throughout North America. His popular SAS Tips column, “Kirk’s Korner of Quick and Simple Tips”, appears regularly in several SAS User Group newsletters and Web sites, and fun-filled SASword Puzzles are featured in www.SAScommunity.org and several newsletters.
A Health Outcomes Case Study: Data Management, Summary and Analysis Overview: This seminar will present the summary and analysis of a health outcomes study, beginning with reviewing the requested analysis plan from the investigator, to setting up analysis datasets from various sources, to producing summary tables/figures and finishing up with testing some basic hypotheses on the data. Some programming techniques to perform these tasks for these types of studies will be presented, including the basic use of hashes and DOW loops to obtain the desired datasets, tables, figures and analyses. A study of Impact of Benefit Designs on Medicare Part B Plans will be used as an example, but the techniques can be applied to similar research studies. They also can be applied in Phase IV studies. Instructor's bio: Richard Read Allen has been using SAS since 1981 while in graduate school at Montana State University. After leaving school, he continued his SAS career as a statistician/programmer at the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Arkansas. In 1994 he moved to Evergreen, Colorado and started Peak Statistical Services, an affiliate member of the SAS Alliance. He has presented at SUGI, NESUG, WUSS and PharmaSUG conferences in the past and has been co-chair of the PharmaSUG conference in 2004 and 2007.
Output Delivery System Programming: The Basics and Beyond Overview: Expand your SAS output formatting and reporting skills with this Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond course. Numerous examples will be presented to improve mastery of ODS capabilities while providing a better understanding of ODS statements and options to perform more complicated tasks. Topics include SAS-supplied Formatting statements and options; Formatting Output with RTF, PDF, MS-Excel, and HTML; Selecting output objects with Selection or Exclusion Lists; using the Escape character to enhance output formats; exploring ODS statements and options; constructing drill-down applications with the DATA step, ODS, and SAS/GRAPH software; creating thumbnail charts; techniques on creating user-defined ODS styles; and an introduction to the customization of output with the TEMPLATE Procedure. Instructor's bio: Kirk Paul Lafler is consultant and founder of Software Intelligence Corporation and has been programming in SAS since 1979. As a SAS Certified Professional and SAS Institute Alliance Member (1996 – 2002), Kirk provides IT consulting services and training to SAS users around the world. As the author of four books including PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS (SAS Institute. 2004), Kirk has written more than two hundred peer-reviewed papers and articles that have appeared in professional journals and SAS User Group proceedings. He has also been an Invited speaker at more than two hundred SAS International, regional, local, and special-interest user group conferences and meetings throughout North America. His popular SAS Tips column, “Kirk’s Korner of Quick and Simple Tips”, appears regularly in several SAS User Group newsletters and Web sites, and fun-filled SASword Puzzles are featured in www.SAScommunity.org and several newsletters. The Nitty Gritty of PROC REPORT Overview: One of the most powerful PROCs in SAS is PROC REPORT. Just this one procedure does the yeoman's work of PROC PRINT, SORT, FREQ, MEANS, and TABULATE, and PUT-Statement Formatting (DATA _NULL_) combined. This seminar is for anyone interested in getting started with PROC REPORT. Through examples, it completely examines how to produce listings through the PRINT, SORT and DATA _NULL_ aspects of PROC REPORT. It also provides an introduction into the FREQ, MEANS and TABULATE aspects of PROC REPORT. The course briefly looks at ODS, but suggests an alternative way to create DOC files. Come experience what PROC REPORT can do for your SAS programming. Instructor's bio: Malachy (Mal) J. Foley is a Senior SAS Programmer/Analyst associated with the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Mal has worked with all types of data for more than 30 years. His career in computing includes being an international consultant, a department manager, a university professor, and a CEO. He has consulted to IBM, Dow Chemical, Ford-Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations, GE, Department of Agriculture, Agency for International Development, GSK, Research Triangle Institute, and many universities. He has taught dozens of computing courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. Mal co-chaired the Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group Conference in 2006. He frequently presents papers and gives seminars at local, regional, national, and international SAS users' groups. |
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