Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Logic

Contents/Online Files

• Introduction
• 1. SAS Programming
• 2. The SAS Way: Examples
  • Text data: Yes members
  • Program: Yes members
  • Text data: ELP members
  • Program: ELP and Yes members
  • Text data: Basketball
  • Program: Basketball
  • Program: Basketball Variation: Creating Multiple SAS Datasets
• 3. Statements and Steps
• 4. Control Flow
• 5. Variables and Values
  • Program: Variable information functions
• 6. Constants and Expressions
• 7. Special Kinds of Values
  • Program: SAS date arithmetic
• 8. Loops and Arrays
• 9. I/O
• 10. SAS Dataset I/O
• 11. Options for SAS Datasets
• 12. Text File I/O
  • Program: The current date and time
• 13. Informats and Formats
• 14. Print Output
• 15. Functions and CALL Routines
  • Program: TRUNC function to compare truncated numeric values
• 16. Low-Level I/O Programming
  • Program: Reading a SAS dataset
  • Program: Reading a text file
• 17. Execution
• 18. Macro Language
• 19. Proc Steps
• 20. Reporting
• 21. Analyzing Data
• 22. Managing Data
• 23. SQL
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• 24. Creating Formats and Informats
  • Program: Formats and informats
  • Program: Control dataset
• Glossary
• Index