Little SAS Book A Primer, Second Edition

Name: Little SAS Book A Primer, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9781580252393

ISBN-10: 1580252397

ISBN-13: 9781580252393

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Lora D. Delwiche, Susan J. Slaughter

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List price: $30.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: SAS Institute
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034

With over 25 years of experience, Lora Delwiche enjoys teaching people about SAS software and likes solving challenging problems using SAS. She has spent most of her career at the University of California, Davis, using SAS in support of teaching and research.

Susan Slaughter discovered SAS software in graduate school over 25 years ago. Since then, she has used SAS in a variety of business and academic settings. She now works as a consultant through her company, Avocet Solutions.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introducing SAS Software	p. viii
About This Book	p. ix
What's New	p. xii
Getting Started Using SAS Software
The SAS Language	p. 2
SAS Data Sets	p. 4
The Two Parts of a SAS Program	p. 6
The DATA Step's Built-in Loop	p. 8
Choosing a Mode for Submitting SAS Programs	p. 10
Windows and Commands in the SAS Windowing Environment	p. 12
Submitting a Program in the SAS Windowing Environment	p. 14
Reading the SAS Log	p. 16
Viewing and Printing the SAS Output	p. 18
Using SAS System Options	p. 20
Getting Your Data into the SAS System
Methods for Getting Your Data into the SAS System	p. 24
Telling SAS Where to Find Your Raw Data	p. 26
Reading Raw Data Separated by Spaces	p. 28
Reading Raw Data Arranged in Columns	p. 30
Reading Raw Data Not in Standard Format	p. 32
Selected Informats	p. 34
Mixing Input Styles	p. 36
Listing the Contents of a SAS Data Set	p. 38
Temporary versus Permanent SAS Data Sets	p. 40
Using LIBNAME Statements with Permanent SAS Data Sets	p. 42
Entering Data with the Viewtable Window	p. 44
Reading Multiple Lines of Raw Data per Observation	p. 46
Reading Multiple Observations per Line of Raw Data	p. 48
Reading Part of a Raw Data File	p. 50
Controlling Input with Options in the INFILE Statement	p. 52
Reading Delimited Files with the DATA Step	p. 54
Reading Delimited Files with the IMPORT Procedure	p. 56
Reading PC Database Files with DDE or the IMPORT Procedure	p. 58
Writing Delimited Files with the EXPORT Procedure	p. 60
Writing Raw Data Files with the DATA Step	p. 62
Working with Your Data
Creating and Redefining Variables	p. 66
Using SAS Functions	p. 68
Selected SAS Functions	p. 70
Using IF-THEN Statements	p. 72
Grouping Observations with IF-THEN/ELSE Statements	p. 74
Subsetting Your Data	p. 76
Working with SAS Dates	p. 78
Selected Date Informats, Functions, and Formats	p. 80
Using the RETAIN and Sum Statements	p. 82
Simplifying Programs with Arrays	p. 84
Using Shortcuts for Lists of Variable Names	p. 86
Sorting, Printing, and Summarizing Your Data
Using SAS Procedures	p. 90
Subsetting in Procedures with the WHERE Statement	p. 92
Sorting Your Data with PROC SORT	p. 94
Printing Your Data with PROC PRINT	p. 96
Changing the Appearance of Printed Values with Formats	p. 98
Selected Standard Formats	p. 100
Creating Your Own Formats Using PROC FORMAT	p. 102
Writing Simple Custom Reports	p. 104
Summarizing Your Data Using PROC MEANS	p. 106
Writing Summary Statistics to a SAS Data Set	p. 108
Counting Your Data with PROC FREQ	p. 110
Producing Tabular Reports with PROC TABULATE	p. 112
Adding Statistics to Tabular Reports	p. 114
Visualizing Your Data with PROC PLOT	p. 116
Formatting Procedure Output for Display on the Internet	p. 118
Creating SAS Data Sets from Procedure Output	p. 120
Modifying and Combining SAS Data Sets
Modifying a Data Set Using the SET Statement	p. 124
Stacking Data Sets Using the SET Statement	p. 126
Interleaving Data Sets Using the SET Statement	p. 128
Combining Data Sets Using a One-to-One Match Merge	p. 130
Combining Data Sets Using a One-to-Many Match Merge	p. 132
Merging Summary Statistics with the Original Data	p. 134
Combining a Grand Total with the Original Data	p. 136
Updating a Master Data Set with Transactions	p. 138
Using SAS Data Set Options	p. 140
Tracking and Selecting Observations with the IN= Option	p. 142
Writing Multiple Data Sets Using the OUTPUT Statement	p. 144
Making Several Observations from One Using the OUTPUT Statement	p. 146
Changing Observations to Variables Using PROC TRANSPOSE	p. 148
Using SAS Automatic Variables	p. 150
Writing Flexible Code with the SAS Macro Facility
Macro Concepts	p. 154
Substituting Text with Macro Variables	p. 156
Creating Modular Code with Macros	p. 158
Adding Parameters to Macros	p. 160
Writing Macros with Conditional Logic	p. 162
Writing Data-Driven Programs with CALL SYMPUT	p. 164
Debugging Macro Errors	p. 166
Using Basic Statistical Procedures
Examining the Distribution of Data with PROC UNIVARIATE	p. 170
Producing Statistics with PROC MEANS	p. 172
Testing Categorical Data with PROC FREQ	p. 174
Examining Correlations with PROC CORR	p. 176
Using PROC REG for Simple Regression Analysis	p. 178
Reading the Output of PROC REG	p. 180
Using PROC ANOVA for One-Way Analysis of Variance	p. 182
Reading the Output of PROC ANOVA	p. 184
Introducing the Analyst Application	p. 186
Debugging Your SAS Programs
Writing SAS Programs That Work	p. 190
Fixing Programs That Don't Work	p. 192
Searching for the Missing Semicolon	p. 194
Note: INPUT Statement Reached Past the End of the Line	p. 196
Note: Lost Card	p. 198
Note: Invalid Data	p. 200
Note: Missing Values Were Generated	p. 202
Note: Numeric Values Have Been Converted to Character (or Vice Versa)	p. 204
DATA Step Produces Wrong Results but No Error Message	p. 206
The DATA Step Debugger	p. 208
Error: Invalid Option, Error: The Option Is Not Recognized, or Error: Statement Is Not Valid	p. 210
Note: Variable Is Uninitialized or Error: Variable Not Found	p. 212
SAS Truncates a Character Variable	p. 214
SAS Stops in the Middle of a Job	p. 216
SAS Runs Out of Memory or Disk Space	p. 218
Appendices
Where to Go from Here	p. 222
Getting Help from SAS Institute Technical Support	p. 224
An Overview of SAS Products	p. 226
Coming to SAS from SPSS	p. 228
Coming to SAS from a Programming Language	p. 234
Coming to SAS from SQL	p. 238
Index	p. 245
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