ST445: Introduction To Statistical Computing and Data Management Class Assignment: August 17
The assignment asks students to work with a partner in class to access a virtual teaching lab, open SAS software, save files to a network drive, and complete an assignment analyzing vegetable data. Students are instructed to create specific folders to organize assignment files, open and modify an SAS program to analyze a veggies data set by changing directory paths and formatting code, and explore errors by deleting code components. The assignment must be completed during class with partners and files submitted via email and Moodle.
ST445: Introduction To Statistical Computing and Data Management Class Assignment: August 17
The assignment asks students to work with a partner in class to access a virtual teaching lab, open SAS software, save files to a network drive, and complete an assignment analyzing vegetable data. Students are instructed to create specific folders to organize assignment files, open and modify an SAS program to analyze a veggies data set by changing directory paths and formatting code, and explore errors by deleting code components. The assignment must be completed during class with partners and files submitted via email and Moodle.
ST445: Introduction to Statistical Computing and Data Management
Class Assignment: August 17
With a partner, access the Virtual Teaching Lab by following the instructions given on the Moodle site. Open SAS in the remote desktop. Also create a directory on your network drive that you can use to save your files. When finished, email your partner the file and both submit the SAS program via Moodle. Be sure to include you and your partners name on the paper! You must be present in class to receive credit for this assignment. Submitting from outside of class or remotely working with a student in class is not allowed. 1. Create a folder called ST445 in a place SAS can access. Create a folder inside this folder called Class Assignments. Finally, create another folder inside this folder called Assignment 1. You will need to do this for every in-class assignment and it will help you organize your files. 2. Save the veggies.txt and assignment1.sas program in this folder. 3. Open up the assignment1.sas program in SAS. 4. Modify the code in the following way: (a) Change the directory in the INFILE statement to the one where the veggies.txt file is located on your computer (the Assignment 1 folder). (b) Reformat the code so that it is easier to read by using tabs. (c) Comment out CostPerSeed=Price/Number so that it is still in the code but is not executed. (d) Find and fix the one error in the code. If you have time, try this out: 1. Delete the WORK. part of the data step and run the code. Does it appear that any errors have changed? 2. Delete the $ after Food and Code and run the code. Open up the data set in Explorer. What has changed?