SAS Programming by Example FROM THE PUBLISHER
Develop and fine-tune your programming skills the easy way -- by example! SAS Programming by Example guides you, with a series of annotated examples, through basic tasks to more complex ones. Problems and solutions are provided to make the most of the programming tools available in base SAS software. Conversational in tone, and cleverly organized, this book is useful both as a tutorial for learning programming and as a convenient quick-reference for solving programming problems.
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Develop and fine-tune your programming skills the easy way -- by example! For beginning and intermediate users, this book guides you, with a series of annotated examples, through basic tasks to more complex ones. Problems and solutions are provided to make the most of the programming tools available in base SAS software. Conversational in tone, this book is useful both as a tutorial for learning programming and as a convenient quick-reference filled with tips and strategies for solving your programming problems. Among the clearly explained examples are models that show you how to build SAS data sets, use SAS functions for data translation, program more efficiently, relate information from multiple sources, and chart and plot data. You will also learn to work with SAS date values, produce descriptive and summary statistics, and write reports.
Ron Cody has over 20 years of experience using and teaching the SAS System. As author of The SAS Workbook and Solutions and coauthor of two other successful SAS programming books, SAS Programming by Examples and Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Fourth Edition, Ron brings expert writing and programming skills to his newest SAS book. He has been a prolific and popular contributor to national, regional, and local user group conferences. In his spare time, Ron is a professor and researcher at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Raymond Pass, Ph.D., a well-known founding member of the NorthEast SAS Users Group, has also been a Section Chair at several annual SAS Users Group International meetings. A frequent speaker at various local, regional, and national users group conferences, Pass offers you the benefit of more than 15 years of experience as a researcher and instructor of the SAS System.
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