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xsBusiness - The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Third Edition
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List Price: $46.95
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Manufacturer: SAS Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.50285
EAN: 9781590473337
ISBN: 1590473337
Label: SAS Publishing
Manufacturer: SAS Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 2003-10-15
Publisher: SAS Publishing
Studio: SAS Publishing
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Summary: SAS
Comment: 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.
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Summary: LITTLE SAS BOOK
Comment: Very good material for a new SAS learner. Easy to read and to understand. I recommend this book for every SAS beginner.
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Summary: Enough to get you started, but not much else
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Very easy book to work with SAS
Comment: 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.
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Summary: excellent reference for beginners and those needing a refresher
Comment: 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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Editorial Reviews:
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Getting started with SAS is easy with The Little SAS Book. This friendly, easy-to-read guide gently introduces you to the most commonly used features of SAS software plus a whole lot more! The book has been revised to include concepts of the Output Delivery System; the STYLE= option in the PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE procedures; ODS HTML, RTF, PRINTER, and OUTPUT destinations; PROC REPORT; more on PROC TABULATE; exporting data; and the colon modifier for informats. You'll find clear and concise explanations of basic SAS concepts (such as DATA and PROC steps), inputting data, modifying and combining data sets, summarizing and presenting data, basic statistical procedures, and debugging SAS programs. Each topic is presented in a self-contained, two-page layout complete with examples and graphics. This format enables new users to get up and running quickly, while the examples allow you to type in the program and see it work!
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