SAS Programming by Example [Paperback]

Ronald P. Cody (Author), Ray Pass (Author), Sas Institute (Corporate Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 1995 | ISBN-10: 1555446817 | ISBN-13: 978-1555446819 | Edition: 1

Develop and fine-tune your programming skills the easy way - by example! For beginning and intermediate users, SAS Programming by Example guides you, with a series of annotated examples, through basic tasks to more complex ones. Problems and solutions are provided to make the most of the programming tools available in base SAS software. Conversational in tone, this book is useful both as a tutorial for learning programming and as a convenient quick-reference filled with tips and strategies for solving your programming problems. Among the clearly explained examples are models that show you how to build SAS data sets, use SAS functions for data translation, program more efficiently, relate information from multiple sources, and chart and plot data. You will also learn to work with SAS date values, produce descriptive and summary statistics, and write reports.

Supports releases 6.09E and higher of SAS software.

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About the Author

Ronald P. Cody, Ed.D., co-author of Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, has over 15 years of experience using the SAS System. A professor and researcher in the medical field, Cody has also taught SAS software classes and been a prolific contributor to national, regional, and local users group conferences.

Raymond Pass, Ph.D., a well-known founding member of the NorthEast SAS Users Group, has also been a Section Chair at several annual SAS Users Group International meetings. A frequent speaker at various local, regional, and national users group conferences, Pass offers you the benefit of more than 15 years of experience as a researcher and instructor of the SAS System.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: SAS Publishing; 1 edition (March 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555446817
• ISBN-13: 978-1555446819
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #751,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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174 of 176 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource...much more readable than the SAS manuals, June 27, 2000

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This review is from: SAS Programming by Example (Paperback)

If you are learning SAS, you will probably find this book to be very helpful. The manuals that come with SAS are very diffuse, and furthermore, don't have enough examples, giving you mainly syntax. On the other hand, this book extracts a useful subset of the SAS system that is spread over many of the SAS manuals, and illustrates it with numerous simple, well-chosen examples.

One thing that sets this book apart from many of the other after-market SAS books for beginners is that it gives some nice hints as to how to write efficient SAS code, which quickly becomes important when you are dealing with large data sets.

Overall, the book is nicely organized, and well-suited to being used as a reference after you read it. It belongs on the desk of every beginning to intermediate SAS programmer. (If you are a true beginner, you might want to start with Delwiche and Slaughter's "The Little SAS Book: A Primer" for a completely painless introduction to the SAS system.)

44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too simplistic for many SAS users, April 16, 2004

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This review is from: SAS Programming by Example (Paperback)

This book might be great for someone who has never used SAS before, and has also never used any kind of programming language at all.

For just about everyone else, this book is simply too simple. I'm not a SAS guru by any means, but there was absolutely nothing in here that I hadn't already picked up in a few months of playing around with SAS.

Two other books I'd recommend for peolpe who need any kind of depth would be "Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language" (by Cody and Smith) and "SAS Applications Programming" (by Dilorio).

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Example code is a great way to learn, August 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: SAS Programming by Example (Paperback)

I am new to SAS, and I want to learn quickly. I am not a computer programmer, and syntax is not the fastest way for me to learn. This book works well for me: I learn from looking at code examples paired with clear narrative and brief output. I give the authors great credit for the ingenuity of their style (which saves me time/money). Although the book is perhaps far from comprehensive, it is the SAS book I value most right now.