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

Selling price: 42.95 USD

ISBN: 978-1-59047-567-6

Page count: 240

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Save 20% on This Month's Featured Book

This featured book is available at a 20% discount through January 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: 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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SAS Publishing Offers New Products for a New Year!

It's 2007 and we have exciting new products and titles to help you get the most from SAS software:

• SAS Press
• SAS Documentation
• SAS Learning Edition

SAS Press Authors in the News

Gerhard Svolba and SAS Austria celebrate an upcoming book. And, Helen Carey and Ginger Carey receive the SAS Silver Circle Award.
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New SAS Documentation

Title: Getting Started with SAS 9.1.3 Open Metadata Interface, Second Edition
Description:
This title introduces you to the SAS Open Metadata Architecture and the SAS Open Metadata Interface by walking you through the steps of setting up a SAS Metadata Server and creating a metadata repository for a simple project in the Windows NT operating environment.

SAS product addressed: SAS Open Metadata Architecture Client Software

Selling price: 14.95 USD

ISBN: 978-1-59994-304-6

Page count: 88

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Mark Your Calendar for the Fourth Annual JMP User Conference

As you ring in the New Year, it might be hard to think about your summer plans, but that is exactly what we encourage you to do! The week of June 11, 2007, marks the fourth annual JMP User Conference at SAS headquarters in Cary, NC.

Registration is now open! Be among the first to reserve a spot at the JMP User Conference, and save $200 with the Early Bird Discount. We're also accepting abstracts submitted for speakers and poster presenters. Submit your paper by January 30, 2007.

SAS Press Author Ron Cody Delivers Training

Whether you're cleaning your data or programming SAS functions, Ron Cody has a course for you! Beginning and seasoned SAS users will benefit from Cody's comprehensive and useful courses based off his best-selling books.

• Data Cleaning Techniques. This two-day course is for SAS software users who want to learn a variety of techniques for finding errors in their data.
  
• SAS Functions by Example. Designed for anyone who programs in Base SAS (especially DATA Step programming), this two-day course covers many useful functions not covered in other programming courses.

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