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SAS For Dummies 2nd Edition

by Stephen McDaniel (Author), Chris Hemedinger (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars 31 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 078-4497411470
ISBN-10: 0470539682
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  • Paperback: 388 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (April 5, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470539682
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470539682
  • Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsPlease Change the Title of the Book
By Amazon Customer on June 26, 2007
Format: Paperback
This book should be titled "SAS Enterprise Guide for Dummies", not "SAS for Dummies".

If you are looking for a beginner's guide to SAS Enterprise Guide, this is a good choice. However, if you are looking for a guide to classic SAS, the SAS Datastep language, Proc SQL, etc... this is not the book you want.
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1.0 out of 5 starsFalse Advertising
By Monica E. Hackett on June 27, 2007
Format: Paperback
This book is going back to the store. It is not a guide to SAS but to SAS Enterprise. Thank goodness a colleague quickly short circuited my learning curve on this book. He told me as I sat with a data set about to plunge in. We don't even have Enterprise on our company computer.

Too bad...I had high hopes.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat intro to "new" SAS
By Anonymous Reader on August 9, 2007
Format: Paperback
SAS For Dummies, like all of the books in the Dummies series I've read, is an enjoyable to read, easy to understand introduction to a broad and complex topic. As some have mentioned, the focus of this book is not on "SAS programming." Rather it covers getting your analysis and reporting work done using some of the newer offerings from SAS in the "business intelligence" area, including Enterprise Guide and other products. There is, however, a helpful chapter on what kinds of programming tasks can be done by more advanced users and what long-time SAS programmers may miss. (For a good book on SAS programming, I'd recommend The Little SAS Book). Also included in SAS For Dummies is good coverage of data integration, "Stored Processes" for analysis and reporting, and 2 chapters on analytics. These 2 chapters are especially helpful as an introduction to difficult concepts. Overall, this book provides a helpful overview of getting your data manipulation, analysis, and reporting tasks done with SAS, and a no-nonsense, nuts and bolts understanding of some of the newest software from SAS.
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1.0 out of 5 starsTerribly misnamed book!!
By John D. Kruse on June 10, 2008
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I purchased this book based on the title and the description provided by Amazon, although I have no clue where they got it. However, while I was looking for a book that described SAS, the language, this book describes SAS, the Windows interface. There is nothing in this book about the actual SAS language, so if that is what you're looking for, like I was, then steer clear of this! Somewhere on the cover or in Amazon's description of this book, there should be a big, red, warning label making sure that you are aware that really this is SAS (Windows) for Dummies!! I guess, in my case, the dummies part was pretty descriptive! I also will never, ever, buy another "for Dummies" book. There is $30 + shipping and handling down the drain.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat reference to SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS BI
By P. Smith on September 25, 2011
Format: Paperback
This was a great introduction to the SAS Enterprise Guide and it's advanced features. The authors present the information in a through and easily understandable manner. If you are not familiar with SAS - SAS Enterprise Guide includes BASE SAS and a lot more. This book will not teach you to code - instead it guides you through the SAS Tasks that write the SAS code for you. Then you can use the SAS code in other tasks so you can quickly learn to program. When learning SAS programming - this can be extremely helpful. Also ... there is a lot of helpful information about statistics, business intelligence, and reporting.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSAS for Dummies - Not for Dummies
By Maverick on July 29, 2012
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I was going to be testing the SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 for our company and had no prior experience with SAS apps. I was told to get another book ("The Little Blue SAS Book"), which should help me work with the app. It was ok but did not explain many things very well for a newby" using SAS.

I looked into the "Sas for Dummies" book and it plugged the gaps very well!

I highly, very highly recommend this book if you are thinking about using SAS Enterprise Guide, you won't regret it!
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4.0 out of 5 stars2nd Edition is good
By I Teach Typing on April 22, 2010
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The 2nd edition of this book has the same terrible title as the first. It should have been called SAS Enterprise Guide for Dummies because it has little information on coding in SAS and a lot on the Enterprise Guide (EG) 4.2 graphical user interface. The book walks you through the range of basic tasks to be done prior to data analysis using EG. Topics from importing, to subsetting/combining data sets, to producing web pages with summary statistics and graphics are covered in an easy to read format. The second edition does not add a lot of new material (one stand out thing is an example on using new SAS graphics code). So don't bother picking this up if you have the first edition.

While I like this book, there are a couple weaknesses. There is not enough information on how to check the quality of your data. While the author explains how to make basic subsets of data, there is not enough guidance on how to do more complicated subsetting. For example, taking a subset of records/subjects from a data file using an average is doable using the graphical user interface in EG but the book only mentions it in the context of writing code. Another problem is in the lack of information on doing statistics. If you need a book on analysis this is not a particularly good choice because the discussion is limited to very basic correlation, regression and ANOVA. On the other hand, the author focuses in on basic data validation and the tools needed to check statistical assumptions. So, this combined with a "real" statistics book is an excellent combination. There are a couple of sections that I have not seen written up in any other SAS book including working with OLAP and integration with MS Office as well as a brief introduction to SAS Enterprise Miner.

So, overall this is a good introductory book for the money.
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