Learning SAS by Example

A Programmer’s Guide

Author: Ron Cody

Publisher: SAS Press

An informal introduction to SAS programming, in a conversational tone, based on real-life examples.

Editions

Paperback (2007)

Paperback

Year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-59994-165-3

Pages: 645

Publisher’s list price: 69.95

Contents

1. What Is SAS?
2. Writing Your First SAS Program
3. Reading Raw Data from External Files
4. Creating Permanent SAS Data Sets
5. Creating Formats and Labels
6. Reading and Writing Data from an Excel Spreadsheet
7. Performing Conditional Processing
8. Performing Iterative Processing: Looping
9. Working with Dates
10. Subsetting and Combining SAS Data Sets
11. Working with Numeric Functions
12. Working with Character Functions
13. Working with Arrays
14. Displaying Your Data
15. Creating Customized Reports
16. Summarizing Your Data
17. Counting Frequencies
18. Creating Tabular Reports
19. Introducing the Output Delivery System
20. Generating High-Quality Graphics
21. Using Advanced INPUT Techniques
22. Using Advanced Features of User-Defined Formats and Informats
23. Restructuring SAS Data Sets
24. Working with Multiple Observations per Subject
25. Introducing the SAS Macro Language
26. Introducing the Structured Query Language
Solutions to Odd-Numbered Problems
Index