Base Sas Programming Black Book, 2007 Ed

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Bases SAS Programming Black Book is the one-step reference and solid foundation, written from the programmer's point-of-view that contains hundreds of examples covering every aspect of SAS. This book covers the unknown or hidden areas of SAS programming, strting from basics to advanced level from SAS DATA step to Base SAS Procedures, i.e. PROC SORT, PROC FORMAT, PROC FREQ and more; from SAS Functions to Multiple DATAsets; from SAS Procedures to SAS Log and ODS Desctinations; from SAS Macro to SAS Debugging and much more. Each chapter in this book is explained in simple language with a clear clarity in concepts-well supported by figures, tables, programs along with their output-to make it as resourceful as possible. Be it a professional statistical analyst or a programmer working for an organization to generate the statistical reports, this book provides a resourceful window to learn Base SAS programming easily.
 

Contents

Introduction to SAS
1
Chapter
6
Introduction to Base SAS
13
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15
Using the SAS Windows Programming Environment
23
SAS Programming Basics
35
SAS ProgrammingData Types Variables and Constants
41
SAS Language ElementsDATA Step
71
71
295
Working with Multiple Datasets and Modifying Datasets
297
Reading Data
303
Modifying Datasets
306
Advanced SAS Procedures
309
PROC CHART Procedure
331
Chapter 10
342
195
355

Writing Data to External Files
147
SAS Language ElementsPROC Step
153
Chapter 4
155
Functionally Base SAS Procedures
161
SAS Language ElementsDATA Step
169
50
191
SAS Procedures
195
Output Statement
225
DEFINE Statement
241
PROC PLOT Procedure
247
SAS Functions
249
Date and Time Functions
257
Truncation Functions
290
SAS Output
356
SAS Macros
365
Inserting Comments in Macros
372
Macros Repeating PROC Execution
380
SAS Debugging
389
SAS Advanced Procedures
403
Base SAS Procedures
411
Appendix C
417
SAS Modules
439
Appendix F
447
197
449
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