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The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fourth Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lora Delwiche, Susan Slaughter
Publisher: SAS Press
Category: Book
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Edition: Fourth
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Pages: 380
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1599947250
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781599947259
ASIN: 1599947250
Publication Date: August 25, 2008
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Product Description
Now in its fourth edition, The Little SAS Book is a classic, helping many people learn SAS programming. The book's friendly, easy-to-read style gently introduces readers to the most commonly used features of the SAS language. Topics include basic SAS concepts such as the DATA and PROC steps, inputting data, modifying and combining data sets, summarizing data, producing reports, and debugging SAS programs. Each topic is presented in a self-contained two-page layout complete with examples and graphics. This clear and concise format enables new users to get up and running quickly, while the examples allow readers to type in the program and see it work! New topics in the fourth edition include ODS Graphics for statistical procedures, PROC SGPLOT for graphics, creating new variables in PROC REPORT with a COMPUTE block, WHERE= data set option, SORTSEQ=LINGUISTIC option in PROC SORT, and more functions, including ANYALPHA, CAT, PROPCASE, and YRDIF.
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 SAS November 1, 2008
This was a great book to read. I was very confused in lecture because I am not programming savy. This book really helped me a lot. Everything is explained in simple terms and makes so much sense.
 LITTLE SAS BOOK October 11, 2008
Very good material for a new SAS learner. Easy to read and to understand. I recommend this book for every SAS beginner.
Enough to get you started, but not much else March 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
During my first week on the job as an actuarial analyst, I got handed a copy of this book and told to teach myself SAS from it. I read every page of it and worked through every example, and by the end of the week I understood the basics of using SAS, but not much else. This is an excellent book for someone who has never seen SAS before in their life; it assumes no prior knowledge and teaches everything from scratch. However, your average SAS user isn't going to be using this program to simply calculate means and variances, and this is where this book fails. The most complex statistics this book covers are simple things, like means and variances, and it is necessary to purchase further manuals if you are interested in learning more advanced techniques. By all means, buy this book, but be aware that it is likely that you will need to buy other books to accompany it.
Very easy book to work with SAS March 3, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is very complete and easy to work with SAS, it isn't for starters, you can use it a lot. It is very helpfull.
excellent reference for beginners and those needing a refresher February 15, 2008
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book is concise and has many of the key ideas that beginning SAS programmers need. It is a good reference even for advanced SAS programmers but does not go far beyond the basics. If you use SAS regularly this will not have enough information for you. However, it is the quickest way to find out how to do something basic that you either have never done or forgot how to do. I only have the 2nd edition, so I can't comment on any changes that may be incorporated in the third edition.
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