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New books and upcoming activities at SAS® Global Forum
Dear Reader,
When March arrives, William Shakespeare's famous quote from "Julius Caesar," "Beware the ides of March," easily comes to mind. Or any number of literary quotations about turbulent wind and unpredictability. While there is truth to Mother Nature shaking things up, there are other events that March is famous for. In North Carolina (and throughout much of the U.S.), March Madness holds college basketball fans captive for a few weeks as top teams battle it out for the national championship. There's also St. Patrick's Day, of course, and even a lesser-known National Panic Day.
This month's issue of SAS® Publishing News lives up to March's diverse reputation, covering a whirlwind of new offerings and activities. Here are some highlights:
- four exciting new books
- a preview of SAS Publishing promotions, authors, and activities taking place at SAS® Global Forum
- SAS authors' tips
- a special section on eBooks
- an interview with an intriguing SAS senior technical editor
- author recruitment opportunity on the topic of reliability analysis in JMP®
I hope that you enjoy this issue of SPN and that your month is as stirring as this excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "Conclusion":
"All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call;
It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;
The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,
And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.”
See you next month,
Shelly Goodin
Editor, SAS Publishing News
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Get 20% off the retail price through March 31st, 2012! »
Just Enough SAS®: A Quick-Start Guide to SAS® for Engineers
By: Robert Rutledge
Price: $49.95 USD (before discount)
Robert Rutledge provides "just enough" instruction on a broad variety of topics so that a new SAS user can become productive very quickly. Although most of the material in the book is geared toward a general audience, engineers will especially benefit from the book's focus on analysis of quality and reliability data in chapters 9 and 10 and in examples. Free eBook access with the purchase of this book! 464 pp.
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Building Business Intelligence Using SAS®: Content Development Examples »
By: Tricia Aanderud and Angela Hall
Price: $59.95 USD
This book clarifies how you can fully leverage each SAS BI solution component to ensure successful implementation. Focusing on the SAS BI clients, this quick-start guide is loaded with examples and tips that help users move quickly from using only one of the SAS BI clients to using a significant portion of the system. The techniques in this book are also invaluable for advanced SAS BI and SAS Enterprise BI users studying for SAS Certified BI Content Developer certification. 378 pp.
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JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP® Scripting Language »
By: Theresa Utlaut, Georgia Morgan, and Kevin Anderson
Price: $44.95 USD
The authors provide novice scripters with a resource that helps them go beyond the basics of the JMP Scripting Language (JSL) and serves as a companion to writing applications. Taking a task-oriented approach rather than focusing on showing the syntax, this book help users with much more than the basic task of capturing a script. 326 pp.
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SAS/GRAPH®: Beyond the Basics »
By: Robert Allison
Price: $35.95 USD
This book collects examples that demonstrate a variety of techniques you can use to create custom graphs using SAS/GRAPH software. Written for the SAS programmer with experience using Base SAS to work with data, the book includes examples that can be used in a variety of industry sectors. SAS/GRAPH: Beyond the Basics will help you create the exact graph you want. 250 pp.
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Overdispersion Models in SAS® »
By: Jorge Morel and Nagaraj Neerchal
Price: $64.95 USD
A friendly methodology-based introduction to the ubiquitous phenomenon of overdispersion. The examples, many of which use the GLIMMIX, GENMOD, and NLMIXED procedures, cover a variety of fields of application. An ideal textbook for a Masters degree-level introductory course on estimation methods for overdispersion and generalized linear models, as well as a first reading for students interested in pursuing this area of research. 406 pp.
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New in the iBookstore
The popular SAS
® 9.3 Language Reference Concepts is now available in the iBookstore.
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eBook News
We have lots of eBook news to share this month.
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Preview of Our Promotions, Events, and Authors at SAS Global Forum
SAS Publishing and SAS authors will be especially busy at SAS Global Forum this year, with more than 20 authors presenting papers, participating in panel discussions, and conducting workshops. Here, we highlight some of the special events in store for you at this year's conference. Read more.
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