National Banana Research Program

2009 IITA/NARO Biometrics SAS Course

Announcement
Statistics and Statistical Computing Course with SAS 19-30 January 2009
Course fee: $300
Venue: Banana Resource Conference Centre, Kawanda (National Agricultural Laboratories-NARO

Course content

1.0 Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Management with SAS
2.0 Analysis of Fixed and Random Effects Models
Completely Randomized Design (CRD)
Randomised Complete Block Design (RCBD)
Latin Square Design (LS)
Incomplete Block Design (IBD)
Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD)
Lattice designs
Nested Design

Factorial in Split plot
Random Effects Models
Estimating variance components
3.0 Regression Type Analysis
Simple and multiple linear regression
Testing for lack of fit
Logistic models
4.0 Multivariate Analysis
Variables reduction techniques
Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
Canonical Correlation
Hierarchical and Non-hierarchical Clustering Classification

5.0 Design and Analysis of survey studies
What is a survey? Basic concepts of sampling
Simple random sampling, Systematic sampling, Stratified sampling
Quota sampling, Cluster sampling, Multistage sampling
Ratio estimates, Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling
PRA diagnostics
Software

You will learn how to

• write SAS codes and complex data management
• generate descriptive statistics and explore data with graphs
• generate and interpret sample statistics using the UNIVARIATE and MEANS procedures
• detect associations among variables
• perform analysis of variance and apply multiple comparison techniques
• perform linear and multiple regression and assess the assumptions
• fit a multiple and binomial logistic regression model
• perform multivariate analysis

Who Should attend
Anyone involve with data and data analysis, researchers who use SAS for data analysis - Breeders, Agronomists, Pathologist, Postharvest specialists, Biotechnologists, Micro biologists, Statisticians, Data Analysts, and Biometricians
Prerequisites - before attending this course, you should
have completed an undergraduate course in statistics covering, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression.
be able to execute programs and navigate in windows operating system

Share your thought
Not sure if this course outline suits your needs? Give us a call at +234 2 241 2626 ext 2643 or +256 772467787 send us e-mail (sofodile@cgiar.org or pragama@kari.go.ug). If you have suggestions for this course or would like it to be offered at another training facility/site in future, let us know as well.
Payment: All payments should be made through Acc No. 8705610680500, Acc Name: NARO/ODA/Banana systems; Standard Chartered Bank, Speke Road.
SAS for windows v9.1. This course addresses SAS/STAT. This course also addresses Base SAS software and touches on SAS/GRAPH software.

Please bring your own laptop/desktop (no vista OS please), and dataset for the workshop.
Indicate participation by payment of course fee and sending an email before December 15, 2008 to: Philip Ragama using pragama@kari.go.ug copied to Dr. Caroline Nankinga cnankinga@kari.go.ug

Payment

All payments should be made through Acc No. 8705610680500, Acc Name: NARO/ODA/Banana systems; Standard Chartered Bank, Speke Road.
SAS for windows v9.1. This course addresses SAS/STAT. This course also addresses Base SAS software and touches on SAS/GRAPH software.