Getting Started with SAS Programming
eBook - ePub

Getting Started with SAS Programming

Using SAS Studio in the Cloud

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Getting Started with SAS Programming

Using SAS Studio in the Cloud

About this book

Get up and running with SAS using Ron Cody's easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide.

Aimed at beginners, Getting Started with SAS Programming: Using SAS Studio in the Cloud uses short examples to teach SAS programming from the basics to more advanced topics in the point-and-click interactive environment of SAS Studio. To begin, you will learn how to register for SAS OnDemand for Academics, an online delivery platform for teaching and learning statistical analysis that provides free access to SAS software via the cloud.

The first part of the book shows you how to use SAS Studio built-in tasks to produce a report, summarize data, and create charts and graphs. It also describes how you can perform basic statistical tests using the interactive point-and-click environment.

The second part of the book uses easy-to-follow examples to show 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 SAS OnDemand for Academics platform.

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Information

Publisher
SAS Institute
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781953329165

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. About This Book
  3. About The Author
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Part I: Getting Acquainted with the SAS Studio Environment
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction to SAS OnDemand for Academics
  7. Chapter 2: The SAS Studio Interface
  8. Chapter 3: Importing Your Own Data
  9. Chapter 4: Creating Reports
  10. Chapter 5: Summarizing Data Using SAS Studio
  11. Chapter 6: Graphing Data
  12. Part II: Learning How to Write Your Own SAS Programs
  13. Chapter 7: An Introduction to SAS Programming
  14. Chapter 8: Reading Data from External Files
  15. Chapter 9: Reading and Writing SAS Data Sets
  16. Chapter 10: Creating Formats and Labels
  17. Chapter 11: Performing Conditional Processing
  18. Chapter 12: Performing Iterative Processing: Looping
  19. Chapter 13: Working with SAS Dates
  20. Chapter 14: Subsetting and Combining SAS Data Sets
  21. Chapter 15: Describing SAS Functions
  22. Chapter 16: Working with Multiple Observations per Subject
  23. Chapter 17: Describing Arrays
  24. Chapter 18: Displaying Your Data
  25. Chapter 19: Summarizing Data with SAS Procedures
  26. Chapter 20: Computing Frequencies