SAS® For Dummies® [Kindle Edition]

Stephen McDaniel (Author), Chris Hemedinger (Author)

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Product Description

The fun and easy way to learn to use this leading business intelligence tool

Written by an author team who is directly involved with SAS, this easy-to-follow guide is fully updated for the latest release of SAS and covers just what you need to put this popular software to work in your business. SAS allows any business or enterprise to improve data delivery, analysis, reporting, movement across a company, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more. SAS For Dummies, 2^nd Edition  gives you the necessary background on what SAS can do for you and explains how to use the Enterprise Guide.

• SAS provides statistical and data analysis tools to help you deal with all kinds of data: operational, financial, performance, and more
• Places special emphasis on Enterprise Guide and other analytical tools, covering all commonly used features
• Covers all commonly used features and shows you the practical applications you can put to work in your business
• Explores how to get various types of data into the software and how to work with databases
• Covers producing reports and Web reporting tools, analytics, macros, and working with your data

In the easy-to-follow, no-nonsense For Dummies format, SAS For Dummies gives you the knowledge and the confidence to get SAS working for your organization.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Note: The Kindle edition of this book does not include any CDs or DVDs.

From the Back Cover

Use SAS on the Web, in Excel or PowerPoint, and from your desktop

The fun and easy way to manage and analyze data

Need to get up and running with SAS? This plain-English guide offers information on all the SAS basics, including getting data into the software, generating reports, creating graphs, and sharing results. Step-by-step instructions and screenshots show you how to work with analytics, databases, reports, and queries.

• Gather and present data

• Use the powerful analytics of SAS

• Access SAS from Microsoft Office and the Web

• Master SAS Enterprise Guide

• Work with SAS and databases

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 23859 KB
• Print Length: 412 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0471788325
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (September 24, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000YDWAT2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,298 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Please Change the Title of the Book, June 26, 2007

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Steven G. Sanders "Steve Sanders" (Birmingham, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SAS For Dummies (Paperback)

This book should be titled "SAS Enterprise Guide for Dummies", not "SAS for Dummies".

If you are looking for a beginner's guide to SAS Enterprise Guide, this is a good choice. However, if you are looking for a guide to classic SAS, the SAS Datastep language, Proc SQL, etc... this is not the book you want.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars False Advertising, June 27, 2007

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Monica E. Hackett (Wayne, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SAS For Dummies (Paperback)

This book is going back to the store. It is not a guide to SAS but to SAS Enterprise. Thank goodness a colleague quickly short circuited my learning curve on this book. He told me as I sat with a data set about to plunge in. We don't even have Enterprise on our company computer.

Too bad...I had high hopes.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to "new" SAS, August 9, 2007

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Anonymous Reader (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAS For Dummies (Paperback)

SAS For Dummies, like all of the books in the Dummies series I've read, is an enjoyable to read, easy to understand introduction to a broad and complex topic. As some have mentioned, the focus of this book is not on "SAS programming." Rather it covers getting your analysis and reporting work done using some of the newer offerings from SAS in the "business intelligence" area, including Enterprise Guide and other products. There is, however, a helpful chapter on what kinds of programming tasks can be done by more advanced users and what long-time SAS programmers may miss. (For a good book on SAS programming, I'd recommend The Little SAS Book). Also included in SAS For Dummies is good coverage of data integration, "Stored Processes" for analysis and reporting, and 2 chapters on analytics. These 2 chapters are especially helpful as an introduction to difficult concepts. Overall, this book provides a helpful overview of getting your data manipulation, analysis, and reporting tasks done with SAS, and a no-nonsense, nuts and bolts understanding of some of the newest software from SAS.