Workshop Overview

This workshop is intended for individuals who are comfortable with basic SAS programming and are interested in learning to use the SAS macro language to simplify programs and/or create analyses and reports that can be easily repeated.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding of how the SAS Macro facility interacts with the base SAS processor
• Understanding of the difference between local and global SAS macro variables
• Understanding of basic strategies for de-bugging code with Macros in SAS
• Ability to create and call macro variables within a regular SAS program
• Ability to create a short macro program that incorporates both DATA and PROC statements

Prerequisites

You must have basic SAS programming experience with a good grasp on DATA step processing concepts in order to benefit from this course.

You must also have a laptop that you can bring to the class with SAS installed, or with remote access to SAS. You can follow along with a free version of SAS that is installed on your laptop, available here.

Note: The workshop does not include time for resolving IT or installation issues, so please make sure you have a working version of SAS available in advance.

Instructor

Mi-Suk Kang Dufour, MPH, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF.

For UCSF Faculty:

Additional seats reserved for UCSF Faculty. Register at this link