The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Sixth Edition
by Susan J. Slaughter, Lora D. Delwiche
The Little SAS Book, 6th Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introducing SAS Software
- About This Book
- About These Authors
- Chapter 1 Getting Started Using SAS Software
- Chapter 2 Accessing Your Data
- 2.1 Methods for Getting Your Data into SAS
- 2.2 SAS Data Libraries and Data Sets
- 2.3 Listing the Contents of a SAS Data Set
- 2.4 Reading Excel Files with the IMPORT Procedure
- 2.5 Accessing Excel Files Using the XLSX LIBNAME Engine
- 2.6 Reading Delimited Files with the IMPORT Procedure
- 2.7 Telling SAS Where to Find Your Raw Data
- 2.8 Reading Raw Data Separated by Spaces
- 2.9 Reading Raw Data Arranged in Columns
- 2.10 Reading Raw Data Not in Standard Format
- 2.11 Selected Informats
- 2.12 Mixing Input Styles
- 2.13 Reading Messy Raw Data
- 2.14 Reading Multiple Lines of Raw Data per Observation
- 2.15 Reading Multiple Observations per Line of Raw Data
- 2.16 Reading Part of a Raw Data File
- 2.17 Controlling Input with Options in the INFILE Statement
- 2.18 Reading Delimited Files with the DATA Step
- Chapter 3 Working with Your Data
- 3.1 Using the DATA Step to Modify Data
- 3.2 Creating and Modifying Variables
- 3.3 Using SAS Functions
- 3.4 Selected SAS Character Functions
- 3.5 Selected SAS Numeric Functions
- 3.6 Using IF-THEN and DO Statements
- 3.7 Grouping Observations with IF-THEN/ELSE Statements
- 3.8 Subsetting Your Data in a DATA Step
- 3.9 Subsetting Your Data Using PROC SQL
- 3.10 Writing Multiple Data Sets Using OUTPUT Statements
- 3.11 Making Several Observations from One Using OUTPUT Statements
- 3.12 Using Iterative DO, DO WHILE, and DO UNTIL Statements
- 3.13 Working with SAS Dates
- 3.14 Selected Date Informats, Functions, and Formats
- 3.15 Using RETAIN and Sum Statements
- 3.16 Simplifying Programs with Arrays
- 3.17 Using Shortcuts for Lists of Variable Names
- 3.18 Using Variable Names with Special Characters
- Chapter 4 Sorting, Printing, and Summarizing Your Data
- 4.1 Using SAS Procedures
- 4.2 Subsetting in Procedures with the WHERE Statement
- 4.3 Sorting Your Data with PROC SORT
- 4.4 Changing the Sort Order for Character Data
- 4.5 Printing Your Data with PROC PRINT
- 4.6 Changing the Appearance of DataValues with Formats
- 4.7 Selected Standard Formats
- 4.8 Creating Your Own Formats with PROC FORMAT
- 4.9 Writing a Report to a Text File
- 4.10 Summarizing Your Data Using PROC MEANS
- 4.11 Writing Summary Statistics to a SAS Data Set
- 4.12 Producing One-Way Frequencies with PROC FREQ
- 4.13 Producing Crosstabulations with PROC FREQ
- 4.14 Grouping Data with User-Defined Formats
- 4.15 Producing Tabular Reports with PROC TABULATE
- 4.16 Adding Statistics to PROC TABULATE Output
- 4.17 Enhancing the Appearance of PROC TABULATE Output
- 4.18 Changing Headers in PROC TABULATE Output
- 4.19 Producing Simple Output with PROC REPORT
- 4.20 Using DEFINE Statements in PROC REPORT
- 4.21 Creating Summary Reports with PROC REPORT
- 4.22 Adding Summary Breaks to PROC REPORT Output
- 4.23 Adding Statistics to PROC REPORT Output
- 4.24 Adding Computed Variables to PROC REPORT Output
- Chapter 5 Enhancing Your Output with ODS
- 5.1 Concepts of the Output Delivery System
- 5.2 Creating HTML Output
- 5.3 Creating RTF Output
- 5.4 Creating PDF Output
- 5.5 Creating Text Output
- 5.6 Customizing Titles and Footnotes
- 5.7 Customizing PROC PRINT with the STYLE= Option
- 5.8 Customizing PROC REPORT with the STYLE= Option
- 5.9 Customizing PROC TABULATE with the STYLE= Option
- 5.10 Adding Trafficlighting to Your Output
- 5.11 Selected Style Attributes
- 5.12 Tracing and Selecting Procedure Output
- 5.13 Creating SAS Data Sets from Procedure Output
- Chapter 6 Modifying and Combining SAS Data Sets
- 6.1 Stacking Data Sets Using the SET Statement
- 6.2 Interleaving Data Sets Using the SET Statement
- 6.3 Combining Data Sets Using a One-to-One Match Merge
- 6.4 Combining Data Sets Using a One-to-Many Match Merge
- 6.5 Using PROC SQL to Join Data Sets
- 6.6 Merging Summary Statistics with the Original Data
- 6.7 Combining a Grand Total with the Original Data
- 6.8 Adding Summary Statistics to Data Using PROC SQL
- 6.9 Updating a Master Data Set with Transactions
- 6.10 Using SAS Data Set Options
- 6.11 Tracking and Selecting Observations with the IN= Option
- 6.12 Selecting Observations with the WHERE= Option
- 6.13 Changing Observations to Variables Using PROC TRANSPOSE
- 6.14 Using SAS Automatic Variables
- Chapter 7 Writing Flexible Code with the SAS Macro Facility
- 7.1 Macro Concepts
- 7.2 Substituting Text with Macro Variables
- 7.3 Concatenating Macro Variables with Other Text
- 7.4 Creating Modular Code with Macros
- 7.5 Adding Parameters to Macros
- 7.6 Writing Macros with Conditional Logic
- 7.7 Using %DO Loops in Macros
- 7.8 Writing Data-Driven Programs with CALL SYMPUTX
- 7.9 Writing Data-Driven Programs with PROC SQL
- 7.10 Debugging Macro Errors
- Chapter 8 Visualizing Your Data
- 8.1 Concepts of ODS Graphics
- 8.2 Creating Bar Charts with PROC SGPLOT
- 8.3 Creating Histograms and Density Curves with PROC SGPLOT
- 8.4 Creating Box Plots with PROC SGPLOT
- 8.5 Creating Scatter Plots with PROC SGPLOT
- 8.6 Creating Series Plots with PROC SGPLOT
- 8.7 Creating Fitted Curves with PROC SGPLOT
- 8.8 Controlling Axes and Reference Lines in PROC SGPLOT
- 8.9 Controlling Legends and Insets in PROC SGPLOT
- 8.10 Customizing Graph Attributes in PROC SGPLOT
- 8.11 Creating Paneled Graphs with PROC SGPANEL
- 8.12 Specifying Image Properties and Saving Graphics Output
- Chapter 9 Using Basic Statistical Procedures
- 9.1 Examining the Distribution of Data with PROC UNIVARIATE
- 9.2 Creating Statistical Graphics with PROC UNIVARIATE
- 9.3 Producing Statistics with PROC MEANS
- 9.4 Testing Means with PROC TTEST
- 9.5 Creating Statistical Graphics with PROC TTEST 258
- 9.6 Testing Categorical Data with PROC FREQ
- 9.7 Creating Statistical Graphics with PROC FREQ
- 9.8 Examining Correlations with PROC CORR
- 9.9 Creating Statistical Graphics with PROC CORR
- 9.10 Using PROC REG for Simple Regression Analysis
- 9.11 Creating Statistical Graphics with PROC REG
- 9.12 Using PROC ANOVA for One-Way Analysis of Variance
- 9.13 Reading the Output of PROC ANOVA
- Chapter 10 Exporting Your Data
- Chapter 11 Debugging Your SAS Programs
- 11.1 Writing SAS Programs That Work
- 11.2 Fixing Programs That Don’t Work
- 11.3 Searching for the Missing Semicolon
- 11.4 Note: INPUT Statement Reached Past the End of a Line
- 11.5 Note: Lost Card
- 11.6 Note: Invalid Data
- 11.7 Note: Missing Values Were Generated
- 11.8 Note: Numeric Values Have Been Converted to Character (or Vice Versa)
- 11.9 DATA Step Produces Wrong Results but No Error Message
- 11.10 Error: Invalid Option, Error: The Option Is Not Recognized, or Error: Statement IsNot Valid
- 11.11 Note: Variable Is Uninitialized or Error: Variable Not Found
- 11.12 SAS Truncates a Character Variable
- 11.13 Saving Memory or Disk Space
- Index
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“I usually say, ‘The computer is the dumbest thing on campus. It does exactly what you tell it to; not necessarily what you want. Logic is up to you.’”
NECIA A. BLACK, R.N., PH.D.
From the SAS-L Listserv, May 6, 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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