Hands-On SAS For Data Analysis
暫譯: 實戰SAS數據分析

SAS is one of the leading enterprise tools in the world today when it comes to data management and analysis. It enables the fast and easy processing of data and helps you gain valuable business insights for effective decision-making. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide that will prepare you for the SAS certification exam.

After a quick overview of the SAS architecture and components, the book will take you through the different approaches to importing and reading data from different sources using SAS. You will then cover SAS Base and 4GL, understanding data management and analysis, along with exploring SAS functions for data manipulation and transformation. Next, you'll discover SQL procedures and get up to speed on creating and validating queries. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn all about data visualization, right from creating bar charts and sample geographic maps through to assigning patterns and formats. In addition to this, the book will focus on macro programming and its advanced aspects.

By the end of this book, you will be well versed in SAS programming and have the skills you need to easily handle and manage your data-related problems in SAS.

• Explore a variety of SAS modules and packages for efficient data analysis
• Use SAS 4GL functions to manipulate, merge, sort, and transform data
• Gain useful insights into advanced PROC SQL options in SAS to interact with data
• Get to grips with SAS Macro and define your own macros to share data
• Discover the different graphical libraries to shape and visualize data with
• Apply the SAS Output Delivery System to prepare detailed reports
• Build enterprise-class data solutions using SAS and become well-versed in SAS programming
• Work with different data structures, and run SQL queries to manipulate your data
• Explore essential concepts and techniques with practical examples to confidently pass the SAS certification exam