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SAS Applications Programming: A Gentle Introduction
Intended for use as a core text or to supplement any introductory or intermediate level statistics course, this book presents the basics of the SAS system in a well-paced, structured, non-threatening manner. It provides an introduction to the SAS system for data management, analysis, and reporting using the subset of the language ideally suited for beginning students, while at the same time serving as a useful reference for intermediate or advanced users. Students learn the language's power and flexibility with many real-world examples drawn from the author's industry experience. Beginning with an overview of the system, this text shows students how to read data, perform simple analyses, and produce simple reports. More complex topics are carefully introduced, guiding students to manage multiple datasets and write custom reports. More advanced statistical techniques such as correlation, regression, and analysis of variance are presented in later chapters.
684 pages, Paperback
First published February 25, 1991
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June 25, 2008
Quite useful for learning the ins and outs of DATA steps in SAS, but extremely dull. I'm sure there are lots of gems in here, but I can't ever get through a chapter without zoning out. Probably better used as a reference.
September 12, 2008
The world needs this book, because SAS is a beast of a programming language. Too bad it's written in the dullest language possible with non-compelling examples, with layout so dense you forget what you even opened the book to find out. The author overshoots "gentle" and ends up with "soporific."
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