| Contents Notes |
Getting started using SAS software -- Getting your data into SAS -- Working with your data -- Sorting, printing, and summarizing your data -- Enhancing your output with ODS [Output delivery system]-- Modifying and combining SAS data sets -- Writing flexible code with the SAS macro facility -- Using basic graphical and statistical procedures -- Exporting your data -- Debugging your SAS programs -- Where to go from here -- Coming to SAS from SPSS -- Coming to SAS from a programming language -- Coming to SAS from SQL. Introduces the most commonly used features of the SAS programming language, including the DATA and PROC steps, inputting data, modifying and combining data sets, summarizing data, producing reports, and debugging SAS programs. New topics in the 4th ed. include ODS graphics for statistical procedures; SGPLOT procedure for graphics; creating new variables in PROC REPORT with a COMPUTE block; WHERE=data set option; SORTSEQ=LINGUISTIC option in PROC SORT; more functions, including ANYALPHA, CAT, PROPCASE, AND YRDIF. |
