Sharpening Your SAS Skills [Paperback]

Sunil Gupta (Author), Curt Edmonds (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 29, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1584885017 | ISBN-13: 978-1584885016 | Edition: 1

Learn how to read, understand, and write better SAS programs

¨ Understand the key differences between similar SAS syntax and programming approaches
¨ Save time in writing SAS code with organized summaries of important facts
¨ Improve your trouble-shooting skills in common programming and data related problems
¨ Reinforce your SAS knowledge with more than 150 technically challenging questions

Ideal for intermediate to advanced SAS users, Sharpening Your SAS® Skills shows how to write and diagnose the most common programming tasks in data access, data management, and data analysis. This book organizes, prioritizes, and compares key facts about SAS for easy usage and reference. It includes SAS version 9.1 features and examples for improving data quality with integrity constraints, generation data sets, and audit trials. Each example will help you better understand the SAS syntax by showing the results expected from the input data and potential errors, notes, or warning messages the program may generate if written incorrectly.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1 edition (April 29, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584885017
• ISBN-13: 978-1584885016
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,946,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a lot of good material, May 27, 2005

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Shamus "Shamus" (Tempe, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sharpening Your SAS Skills (Paperback)

I think this is a good SAS book to have, in particular
I really like the scope of it. The authors have put
together a pretty wide range of the most important, core
topics: report writing, debugging, a lot of data
manipulation, including array processing, a little
SQL, and other essentials (stats, macros, and graph
are not discussed, mainly base SAS).

Though I am a fan of books that focus on new coding
tricks and such, I appreciate how this one reviews the
system processing for each step, besides showing
examples. For instance, WHERE vs IF statement
processing is compared, SQL vs the Data Step, etc. Understanding
this is necessary to become efficient and creative in SAS programming.
Some minor issues including some typos, and I agree
it's a bit pricey, but overall a good, informative book

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top choice for SAS beginners, January 2, 2008

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V. Ravikanth Darbha "RD" (CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sharpening Your SAS Skills (Paperback)

A perfect guide for efficient SAS programming. This book contains a huge collection of tips, techniques,and examples which are very usefull in the real SAS programming world. The authors are very friendly and do respond for all your questions and detailed clarifications needed on any topic from this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good SAS resource, July 22, 2005

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Stats Man - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sharpening Your SAS Skills (Paperback)

This book contains a lot of important SAS features and functions that are a helpful resource to SAS programmers. The authors use many good, clear examples demonstrating the features they discuss. The chapter comparing data step SET and MERGE statements with PROC SQL is very helpful. Also, the data manipulation and SAS reporting tools chapters provide many useful features in summary form.