SAS' Barry de Ville's New Title Now Available

Title: Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining: Using SAS Enterprise Miner
Author: Barry de Ville
Description:
Using SAS Enterprise Miner, this book illustrates the application and operation of decision trees in business intelligence, data mining, business analytics, prediction, and knowledge discovery. It explains in detail the use of decision trees as a data mining technique and how this technique complements and supplements data mining approaches such as regression, as well as other business intelligence applications that incorporate tabular reports, OLAP, or multidimensional cubes.

SAS products addressed: Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS/STAT

ISBN: 978-1-59047-567-6

Page count: 240

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Title: SAS Functions by Example
Author: Ron Cody
Description:
This title is a must-have reference for anyone who writes programs in Base SAS. From ABS to ZIPSTATE, more than 180 of the most useful SAS language functions are clearly defined and illustrated with fully annotated working programs. Written as both a reference manual and an instructional guide, this book contains numerous helpful features, including functions arranged by category; coverage of 48 functions that are new for SAS 9.1; a tutorial on Perl regular expressions; extensive sample programs featuring each of the functions; tips to show you novel ways to use functions or to use several functions together to achieve the result you want; a list of programs; an alphabetic list of all the functions in the book; and a comprehensive index of functions and tasks. Beginning and seasoned SAS users will benefit from this comprehensive, useful reference guide to SAS functions!

SAS products addressed: Base SAS, SAS/STAT

Selling price: 47.95 USD (before discount)

ISBN: 978-1-59047-378-8

Page count: 440

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