An Introduction to SAS University Edition

Description

Get up and running with the SAS University Edition using Ron Cody’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Aimed at beginners who have downloaded the free SAS University Edition and want to either use the point-and-click interactive environment of SAS Studio, or who want to write their own SAS programs, or both, An Introduction to SAS University Edition, begins by showing you how to obtain the SAS University Edition, and how you can run SAS on a PC or Macintosh computer. The first part of the book shows you how to perform basic tasks, such as producing a report, summarizing data, producing charts and graphs, and using the SAS Studio built-in tasks. The first part also describes how you can perform basic statistical tests using the interactive point-and-click environment. The second part of the book shows you how to write your own SAS programs, and how to use SAS procedures to perform a variety of tasks. This part of the book also explains how to read data from a variety of sources: text files, Excel workbooks, and CSV files. In order to get familiar with the SAS Studio environment, this book also shows you how to access dozens of interesting data sets that are included with the product. Contents List of Programs About This Book About the Author Acknowledgments Part 1: Getting Acquainted with the SAS Studio Environment 1 Introduction to the SAS University Edition 2 The SAS Studio Interface 3 Importing Your Own Data 4 Creating Reports 5 Summarizing Data Using SAS Studio 6 Graphing Data Part 2: Learning How to Write Your Own SAS Programs 7 An Introduction to SAS Programming 8 Reading Data from External Files 9 Reading and Writing SAS Data Sets 10 Creating Formats and Labels 11 Performing Conditional Processing 12 Performing Iterative Processing: Looping 13 Working with SAS Dates 14 Subsetting and Combining SAS Data Sets 15 Describing SAS Functions 16 Working with Multiple Observations per Subject 17 Describing Arrays 18 Displaying Your Data 19 Summarizing Data with SAS Procedures 20 Computing Frequencies Appendix: Solutions to the Odd-Numbered Problems Index