SAS Enterprise Guide is hard to describe, difficult to pigeonhole, a very powerful tool that is the “Excel” of SAS, and the closest thing there is to an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for SAS. Since the release of SAS 9, Enterprise Guide is the new face of SAS for general purpose use in a … Read more
In my many visits to a wide array of companies, I have noticed a common theme amongst fellow programmers, analysts, and statisticians. After years of lengthy study and practice to become expert at their area, they often express frustration and consternation for those who are less focused on the effective and proper use of data … Read more
SAS is the 2nd largest BI vendor in the world, just behind Business Objects, according to this report posted at http://www.sas.com/news/analysts/idc_bi_0607.pdf It’s interesting to note that Business Objects growth rate slowed by half this past year (down from 14% to 7% growth/year.) SAS’s rate accelerated (up from 13 to 17%) and Microsoft (up from 25 … Read more
Question: from a reader in Sweden Just saw on Amazon that this new book is available. I know the examples in it are from using Enterprise Guide 4.1, but I have the Learning edition 2.0 which includes Enterprise Guide 2.1. Can I still use the book, or are these versions of Enterprise Guide very … Read more
SAS for Dummies is being used at Duke University Medical School as one of two texts for a course on Introduction to Statistical Methods. See http://crtp.mc.duke.edu/content.asp?page=courseinfo. The program the book is being used in is described as: “… provides academic training in the quantitative and methodological principles of clinical research. Designed primarily for … Read more
This book is a well written and succinct introduction to SAS programming and basic statistical analysis. Using just PC SAS with BASE and STAT, you can pick up the basics of programming with SAS for data access, data manipulation with the DATA step and functions, basic SAS PROCs, controlling output appearance, leveraging MACRO capabilities … Read more
Writing this book has been exciting, tiring, fascinating, challenging, and ultimately a very gratifying task. We worked hard to ensure that it provides a very broad but practical look at SAS 9. Here is an outline of the chapters that are planned (pending final reviews, tweaks, and page constraints): High-Level Table of Contents … Read more
Part I: Welcome to SAS! Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World SAS SAS–Isn’t That for Gurus? Data, Data Everywhere, Just Not Where I Need It! Summarizing and Reporting The Secret Sauce: Analytics Optimizing the Present Share the power … Read more