1st Edition
by Connie Tang (Author)
Although the web and online SAS®
communities can provide volumes of information for programmers, these
resources are often overwhelming and lack a simple path to guide coding
SAS. This reference, however, does provide such a path from a data
user’s standpoint vs. seeing things as a code writer. Written by an
experienced SAS programmer, this book lets SAS coders easily find
explanations and clarification to typical programming problems. This
book presents practical real-world data analysis steps encountered by
analysts in the field. These steps include the following:
- Getting to know raw data
- Understanding variables
- Getting data into SAS
- Creating new data variables
- Performing data manipulations, including sorting, ranking, grouping, subtotal, total, and percentage
- Statistical testing under a broad range of logical and conditional settings
- Data visualization
Throughout
this book, statements and codes are accompanied by thorough annotation.
Line-by-line explanations ensure that all terms are clearly explained.
Code examples and sample codes have broad usages. All the examples are
related to highway transportation where the use of big data is exploding
and presenting new challenges and opportunities for growth.
Clear
and precise practical introductory material on statistics is integrated
into the relevant SAS procedures to bolster users’ confidence in
applying such methods to their own work.
Comprehensive and
foundational coverage, systematic introduction of programming topics,
thoroughly annotated code examples, and real-world code samples combine
to make SAS® Coding Primer and Reference Guide an indispensable reference for beginners and experienced programmers.
