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SAS for Dummies makes its debut this month in our online bookstore - as an added bonus, be sure to check out the Table of Contents and sample code on the details page.

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The SAS Press Library Continues to Grow!

Title: CRM Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner
Author: Randall S. Collica
Description:
Understanding the customer is critical to your company's success. In this instructive guide, Randy Collica employs SAS Enterprise Miner and the most commonly available techniques for customer relationship management (CRM). You will learn how to segment customers more intelligently and to achieve, or at least get closer to, the one-to-one customer relationship that today's businesses want. Step-by-step examples and exercises clearly illustrate the concepts of segmentation and clustering in the context of CRM.

ISBN: 978-1-59047-508-9
Page count : 320


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Title: SAS Graphics for Java: Examples Using SAS AppDev Studio and the Output Delivery System
Authors: Wendy Bohnenkamp and Jackie Iverson
Description:
Here, in one convenient source, is all the information you need to create your own SAS graphs. This example-rich reference familiarizes you with custom tags in SAS AppDev Studio and shows you how to use ODS statements and the Java Device Driver to create graphs. Written for programmers at all experience levels, this dynamic book focuses on the attributes, parameters, and options that make graphs convey what you really want them to convey.

ISBN: 978-1-59047-693-2
Page count: 360


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Title: Elementary Statistics Using JMP
Author: Sandra Schlotzhauer
Description:
Learn how to perform basic statistical analyses using the powerful JMP software. This reader-friendly guide bridges the gap between statistics texts and JMP documentation. It opens with an explanation of the basics of JMP data tables, demonstrating how to use JMP for descriptive statistics and graphs. The author continues with a lucid discussion of fundamental statistical concepts, including normality and hypothesis testing. Using a step-by-step approach, she shows analyses for comparing two groups, comparing multiple groups, fitting regression equations, and exploring contingency tables. For each analysis, the author clearly explains assumptions, the statistical approach, the JMP steps and results, and how to make conclusions from the results.

ISBN: 978-1-59994-375-6
Page count: 480

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Hot Off the Press: SAS For Dummies

Title: SAS For Dummies
Authors: Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger
Description:
SAS For Dummies is the introductory title in the fun and easy Dummies format to get up and running using SAS 9, SAS's statistical and data analysis software. This book will introduce the reader to the commonly used features of the software, then jump right into the practical: getting various types of data into the software, producing reports, working with the data, basic SAS programming, macros, and working with SAS and databases.

ISBN: 978-0-471-78832-4
Page count: 432

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Save 20% on July's Featured Titles

The featured books below are available at a 20% discount through July 31! To ensure that you receive this discount, please reference the tracking code YN in the comments field for online orders. Be sure to reference this code in fax and telephone orders, too.

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.

ISBN: 978-1-59047-567-6
Page count: 240


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Title: Introduction to Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner
Author: Patricia Cerrito
Description:
If you have an abundance of data, but no idea what to do with it, this book was written for you! Packed with examples from an array of industries, this introductory text provides you with excellent starting points and practical guidelines to begin data mining today.

ISBN: 978-1-59047-829-5
Page count: 488

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News about SAS Learning Edition 4.1

The need for talented people capable of leveraging world-class business analytics has never been clearer. The SAS Learning Edition educational bundle gives both students and knowledge workers looking to enhance their data analytics skills the freedom to learn SAS at their own pace and on their own PCs. SAS Enterprise Guide, the point-and-click interface to SAS Learning Edition, enables users to access, manage, transform, analyze, summarize and report...utilizing the highest-quality SAS graphics, and then to easily publish those results.
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