The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Third Edition | 
| Authors: Lora D. Delwiche, Susan J. Slaughter
Publisher: SAS Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 5632
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590473337
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.50285
EAN: 9781590473337
Publication Date: October 15, 2003
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Product Description
Getting started with SAS is easy with The Little SAS Book. This friendly, easy-to-read guide gently introduces you to the most commonly used features of SAS software plus a whole lot more! The book has been revised to include concepts of the Output Delivery System; the STYLE= option in the PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE procedures; ODS HTML, RTF, PRINTER, and OUTPUT destinations; PROC REPORT; more on PROC TABULATE; exporting data; and the colon modifier for informats. You'll find clear and concise explanations of basic SAS concepts (such as DATA and PROC steps), inputting data, modifying and combining data sets, summarizing and presenting data, basic statistical procedures, and debugging SAS programs. Each topic is presented in a self-contained, two-page layout complete with examples and graphics. This format enables new users to get up and running quickly, while the examples allow you to type in the program and see it work!
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 Enough to get you started, but not much else March 24, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
During my first week on the job as an actuarial analyst, I got handed a copy of this book and told to teach myself SAS from it. I read every page of it and worked through every example, and by the end of the week I understood the basics of using SAS, but not much else. This is an excellent book for someone who has never seen SAS before in their life; it assumes no prior knowledge and teaches everything from scratch. However, your average SAS user isn't going to be using this program to simply calculate means and variances, and this is where this book fails. The most complex statistics this book covers are simple things, like means and variances, and it is necessary to purchase further manuals if you are interested in learning more advanced techniques. By all means, buy this book, but be aware that it is likely that you will need to buy other books to accompany it.
 Very easy book to work with SAS March 3, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is very complete and easy to work with SAS, it isn't for starters, you can use it a lot. It is very helpfull.
excellent reference for beginners and those needing a refresher February 15, 2008
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is concise and has many of the key ideas that beginning SAS programmers need. It is a good reference even for advanced SAS programmers but does not go far beyond the basics. If you use SAS regularly this will not have enough information for you. However, it is the quickest way to find out how to do something basic that you either have never done or forgot how to do. I only have the 2nd edition, so I can't comment on any changes that may be incorporated in the third edition.
Good quick reference October 18, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very useful for quick reference. Good for beginners or for experienced sas user who want a quick reference guide.
Great book for beginners!!! October 10, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful for those of us who are just learning how to use SAS!
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