SAS 9.1.3 Documentation

Use the PDF documentation below to browse or print SAS 9.1.3 reference documentation when you need it. Be sure to check this location often because we’ll be adding books as they become available. SAS 9.1.3 documentation includes thousands of pages of reference material.

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What's New in SAS 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.2, and 9.1.3

What's New in SAS 9.0, 9.1, 9.1.2, and 9.1.3
Gives you a quick, convenient overview of new functionality, enhanced features, and new products that you may want to take advantage of since SAS Release 8.2.

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Last updated 18JUL08

Base SAS

Base SAS Guide to Information Maps**
This title provides an overview of SAS information maps, as well as the information and examples that Base SAS users need to start using the new INFOMAPS procedure and the new SAS Information Maps LIBNAME Engine.

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Last updated 17NOV06

Base SAS 9.1.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition**
This title contains the complete reference for all Base SAS procedures including examples of how to use procedures to analyze, manage, and present your data. This entire three-volume set is also available online. Both experienced and inexperienced SAS users will find this handy reference invaluable.

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Last updated 01JUN06

Moving and Accessing SAS 9.1 Files
Learn how to use CEDA, the preferred strategy for file access across a network. Starting in SAS 9, another method of moving a SAS data set across operating environments is to use the XML engine to convert the file to an XML document. The information presented in this title does not apply to SAS releases prior to 6.07.

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SAS 9.1 Companion for OpenVMS Alpha
Describes the features of the SAS language and the SAS interface that are available only on OpenVMS Alpha or that behave differently on OpenVMS Alpha than on other platforms. You will learn basic X window concepts, how they relate to SAS, how to use X resources to customize your SAS session, and more.

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SAS 9.1 Companion for UNIX Environments
Describes the features of the SAS language and SAS interface that are available only on UNIX or that behave differently on UNIX than on other platforms. You will learn basic X window concepts, how they relate to SAS, how to use X resources to customize your SAS session, and more.

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SAS 9.1 Companion for Windows
Describes aspects of the SAS interface and the SAS language that are specific to the Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP environments.

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SAS 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS**
A practical guide to learn about z/OS and SAS, this companion documents details of the user interface and SAS language that are specific to the z/OS operating environment.

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SAS 9.1.3 Data Security Technologies**
Learn how you can use SAS to ensure the confidentiality of business transactions over a network between an enterprise and its consumers, between enterprises, and within an enterprise.

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Last updated 03MAR05

SAS 9.1.3 Language Reference: Concepts**
This title comprehensively documents essential concepts for SAS features, the DATA step, and SAS files. This reference is a companion volume to the SAS Language Reference: Dictionary, which provides complete reference information about fundamental SAS language element features and the DATA step debugger.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS 9.1.3 Language Reference: Dictionary, Fifth Edition**
This comprehensive reference manual provides you with a complete selection of reference entries for individual elements of the SAS language in an alphabetized, encyclopedia format.

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Last updated 9JUL07

SAS 9.1 Macro Language: Reference
Provides complete information about macro language elements, interfaces between the macro facility and other parts of SAS software, and macro processing in general.

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SAS 9.1.3 Metadata LIBNAME Engine: User's Guide, Second Edition**
You'll learn how to use the metadata engine to integrate your organization's metadata with your organization's physical data.

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SAS 9.1 National Language Support (NLS): User's Guide
Provides comprehensive conceptual information and detailed syntax for all SAS language elements that contain NLS properties. Consolidates all information about NLS that was previously contained in multiple SAS documents.

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SAS 9.1.3 Output Delivery System: User's Guide**
New users can quickly learn the basics of ODS from the text or by copying and modifying the examples. More experienced users can delve into the complexities of PROC TEMPLATE to produce a truly original look for their SAS output.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS 9.1 Scalable Performance Data Engine: Reference
Learn how to use threading technology to read your data and deliver it in threads to your applications rapidly, how to configure your disk setup to maximize performance, move your data sets into SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine data sets, create and load indexes in parallel, and effectively use SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine options in your applications.

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SAS 9.1 SQL Procedure User's Guide
Learn the basics of using PROC SQL, including retrieving data from single and multiple tables, selecting specific data from tables, subsetting, ordering, and summarizing data, updating tables, combining tables to create new tables and useful reports, performing queries on database management system (DBMS) tables, using PROC SQL with the SAS macro facility, and debugging and optimizing PROC SQL code.

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SAS 9.1 SQL Query Window: User's Guide
Learn to design reports with PROC REPORT based on your SQL Query window's output. In this guide you will learn basic query concepts, how to perform basic queries on single and multiple tables, how to use advanced SQL Query window features, and how to customize the SQL Query window environment.

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SAS 9.1.3 XML LIBNAME Engine: User's Guide**
This user's guide explains how to use the XML engine in order to export a SAS data set as an XML document and to import an external XML document as a SAS data set.

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Last updated 10MAY07

Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS Software**
With this task-oriented guide, you will learn, step-by-step, how to use DATA step programming and base SAS procedures to perform common tasks in your daily use of SAS software. This book is designed for new users who have an introductory-level knowledge of SAS software and for intermediate users who want help with specific tasks or to learn new ones.

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Last updated 02FEB07

SAS/ACCESS

SAS/ACCESS 9.1 DATA Step Interface to CA-IDMS: Reference
Describes the DATA step interface and how to write CA-IDMS INFILE and INPUT statements. Shows you how to create a DATA step view that, when executed, will access and retrieve data from CA-IDMS, how to use the SAS INFILE parameters that are required to generate each of the CA-IDMS function calls, and how to build one or more databases using a data dictionary.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 for Relational Databases Reference, Fifth Edition**
Explains and illustrates how to use all major features of SAS/ACCESS interfaces to available relational databases: LIBNAME, data set, and system options; macro variables; threaded reads; PROC SQL interactions, plus a large collection of examples with output. Supplements for various DBMSs are also available separately and include DB2 under z/OS; DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts; HP Neoview; Informix; Microsoft SQL Server; Netezza; ODBC; OLE DB; Oracle; SYBASE; and Teradata.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to ADABAS: Reference
Provides complete details for using the ACCESS procedure in a non-windowing environment and contains reference information required by an applications programmer to write access and view descriptors to access ADABAS data and use it in SAS.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to Baan: User's Guide
Describes how to use the SAS/ACCESS Interface to Baan as a standalone product, describes how to use the interface as an add-in to SAS/Warehouse Administrator, provides primary support for using the interface to import data from a Baan system, and describes the metadata that is created when a Baan scheme is imported.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to CA-Datacom/DB: Reference
Learn how to create SAS/ACCESS descriptor files using the ACCESS procedure, directly access data in CA-Datacom/DB tables from within a SAS program using the descriptor files created with the ACCESS procedurek, extract CA-Datacom/DB data and place it in a SAS data file using the ACCESS procedure or the DATA step, and update data in CA-Datacom/DB tables using the SQL procedure, the APPEND procedure, SAS/FSP software, or SAS/AF software.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to IMS: Reference
SAS/ACCESS software provides an interface between SAS and the IMS database management system (DBMS). Consider this title your source for complete details on accessing IMS data with SAS. The ACCESS procedure has been enhanced to include new statements and options.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to PC Files: Reference
Find all of the PC files supported by SAS/ACCESS software in this handy reference. You will also find detailed information about PC file specific procedures, statements, options, and environment variables, as well as basic information about each PC file.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to PeopleSoft: User's Guide
Learn how to extract, browse, and search PeopleSoft metadata and use the PeopleSoft metadata to build SAS views of PeopleSoft tables.You can save these views as permanent SAS views, data files, or source code.

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SAS/ACCESS 4.2 Interface to R/3: User's Guide
Find the information you need in order to use the SAS/ACCESS interface to R/3, including how to access and display R/3 metadata, search R/3 metadata structures, perform data requests, export R/3 metadata to a SAS data warehouse, and manipulate the data using data warehouse processes. You can use the interface as either a standalone product or an add-in to SAS/Warehouse Administrator.

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Last updated 15OCT06

SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to SAP BW: User's Guide
Find all the information you need in this user's guide about how to extract and browse InfoCube and ODS object metadata from the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), import InfoCube and ODS data into SAS, export OLAP metadata about an SAP BW InfoCube to SAS/EIS, and retrieve SAP BW data both interactively and in batch mode.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Interface to SYSTEM 2000: Reference
Learn how to create descriptor files that allow you direct access to SYSTEM 2000 databases from within SAS using the ACCESS procedure. You can extract data into a SAS data file for processing and you can update the data in SYSTEM 2000 databases using SAS procedures such as SQL, APPEND, and more.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for DB2 under z/OS (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)**
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases), Second Edition**
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for HP Neoview (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)**
Explains how SAS/ACCESS software is customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your HP Neoview database management system (DBMS). When used with the SAS/ACCESS Interface to Relational Databases: Reference (available separately), provides a comprehensive guide for using SAS/ACCESS features and options that are available for HP Neoview. New with this release.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Supplement for Informix (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Supplement for Microsoft SQL Server (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for MySQL (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)**
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for Netezza (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)**
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Supplement for ODBC (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Supplement for OLE DB (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for ORACLE (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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Last updated 14JUL05

SAS/ACCESS 9.1 Supplement for SYBASE (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases)
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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Last updated 02DEC05

SAS/ACCESS 9.1.3 Supplement for Teradata (SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases), Second Edition**
This supplement explains how SAS/ACCESS software has been customized to accommodate the particular requirements and capabilities of your DBMS.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

SAS Add-In 2.1 for Microsoft Office: Getting Started with Data Analysis**
Provides step-by-step instructions for analyzing data in Microsoft Excel. You will be guided through several SAS tasks and shown how you can harness the power of SAS in Microsoft Excel. The scenarios in the book use sample data that is provided with Base SAS software, so you can follow the instructions to perform this analysis.

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SAS/AF

Getting Started with SAS/AF and Frames**
This book provides an introduction to application development using SAS/AF and FRAME entries. Geared to the SAS/AF beginner, the instruction and examples can be used with SAS 8.1 through SAS®9. In just a few steps, you'll develop a graphical user interface and a multiple-window application. This primer is an ideal starting point for becoming a FRAME entry expert.

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SAS Component Language 9.1: Reference
Shows novice and experienced application developers how to use SCL to build the real-world applications that your organization requires.

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SAS/AF 9.1 Procedure Guide
Application developers will find the information they need to build applications using the BUILD environment and to run them using the AF environment. This guide provides complete descriptions of all the essential features that can be used with the BUILD procedure.

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SAS/AF and SAS/EIS

SAS Guide to Applications Development, Second Edition
Provides numerous tips for working in the SAS/AF and SAS/EIS application development environments. The examples have been updated to work more efficiently with SAS 8 through SAS 9, and a glossary has been added.

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SAS/ASSIST

SAS/ASSIST 9.1 Administrator's Guide
Learn to create and store selected metadata in SAS/ASSIST to improve performance when you are searching across columns and tables, or learn to instantly display an organized view of your relevant data.

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Doing More with SAS/ASSIST 9.1
Provides instructions for a wide variety of tasks, including more advanced tasks than you will find in Getting Started with SAS/ASSIST 9.1. Some of the many tasks described in this title include combining data, creating formats and informats, generating sophisticated graphics, and performing advanced query and reporting tasks.

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Getting Started with SAS/ASSIST 9.1
Using this guide and SAS/ASSIST software's point-and-click interface to SAS, you will quickly learn to produce reports and graphics, perform data entry, editing, and analysis, set up SAS files, enter data interactively, use the Report engine, use remote connect, and more.

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SAS BI Dashboard

SAS BI Dashboard 3.1: User's Guide, Second Edition
Learn how to create and edit data models, ranges, and indicators to present key performance indicators in a dashboard. Create visually appealing dashboards that include graphics, text, colors, and hyperlinks.

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Last updated 31OCT07

SAS/CONNECT

SAS/CONNECT 9.1 User's Guide
Use the Compute Services component to synchronously or asynchronously execute SAS programs in one or more server sessions; use the Data Transfer Services component to move a copy of the data between computers for processing; and use the Remote Library Services component to transparently access remote SAS data that resides in server libraries on computers across the network, and dynamically pass the data to the client upon request.

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SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE

Communications Access Methods for SAS/CONNECT 9.1 and SAS/SHARE 9.1
Designed to be used in conjunction with the user’s guides for SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE, this title provides you with the explicit steps needed for connecting two platforms, enabling you to access and manipulate data as desired.

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SAS Data Integration Studio

SAS Data Integration Studio 3.4 User's Guide**
This manual explains how to use SAS Data Integration Studio to specify metadata for sources, such as tables in an operational system; specify metadata for targets, such as the tables and other data stores in a data warehouse; and create jobs that specify how data is extracted, transformed, and loaded from sources to targets. This manual summarizes how to set up servers, libraries, and other resources that SAS Data Integration Studio requires. A data warehouse for a fictional company, Orion Star Sports & Outdoors, is used to illustrate these tasks. New sections include a chapter about optimizing process flows and an appendix about customizing the code that is generated by SAS Data Integration Studio.

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Last updated 15MAY07

SAS Data Quality

SAS 9.1.2 Data Quality Server: Reference
Contains reference information, usage information, and lots of working examples. You’ll learn how to improve your input data to increase the accuracy of your analyses.

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SAS Enterprise Miner

Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2
Learn how to use the graphical user interface (GUI) tools to create and manage process flow diagrams and projects, and to export mining results for reporting and integration with other SAS software. The data mining tasks you will learn include sampling, exploring, modifying, modeling, and assessing data in order to create and refine predictive models.

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Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Miner 4.3
Describes the core functionality of SAS Enterprise Miner and shows you how to perform basic tasks. You will learn how to manage process flow diagrams and projects and how to use the graphical user interface (GUI) tools for SEMMA.

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Getting Started with SAS 9.1 Text Miner
SAS Text Miner software provides tools for exploring and extracting information from a collection of text documents. This introductory guide includes real-world examples that show you how to set up a project and then obtain and analyze results.

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Getting Started with SAS Text Miner 3.1**
SAS Text Miner provides tools for exploring and extracting information from a collection of text documents. Text Miner uncovers the themes and concepts that exist in a wide array of unstructured textual data, such as e-mails, white papers, news articles, and research data. Getting Started with SAS Text Miner 3.1 is designed for business analysts and statisticians, as well as for marketing representatives, researchers, and anyone who examines large amounts of text in order to extract information and trends.

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Last updated 11MAY07

SAS ETL Studio

SAS 9.1.3 ETL Studio: User’s Guide**
This manual explains how to use SAS ETL Studio to specify metadata for sources and for targets, create jobs that specify how data is extracted, transformed, and loaded from sources to targets as well as summarizeing how to set up servers, libraries, and other resources that SAS ETL Studio requires.

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SAS/ETS

SAS/ETS 9.1 User's Guide
New for 9.1 are procedures for regression based on maximum entropy, for UCM models, and for analyzing and managing transactional data. Also includes several enhancements to existing procedures such as automatic outlier detection for time series and simulated method of moments estimation for multiequational models, with many new examples.

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SAS/FSP

SAS/FSP 9.1 Procedures Guide
Learn how to interact with your data using integrated tools for data entry, computation, query, editing, validation, display, and retrieval. This detailed reference guide also contains the syntax information you need to apply these procedures for browsing and editing SAS data sets and generating form letters and reports.

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SAS/Genetics

SAS/Genetics 9.1.3 User's Guide**
Provides you with the statistical genetics background and the procedural syntax needed to use this software, as well as examples showing some common applications of the methods in these procedures, and how to obtain a graphical representation of the procedures' results using a new SAS macro.

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Last updated 10MAR07

SAS/GIS

SAS/GIS 9.1: Spatial Data and Procedure Guide
Brings you updated coverage of how to use SAS/GIS software. This guide assists administrators with importing spatial d ata and creating SAS/GIS spatial databases.

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SAS/GRAPH

SAS/GRAPH 9.1 Reference
Provides information and presentation color graphics capabilities to produce a wide variety of business charts, plots, and maps in many colors and patterns.

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SAS High-Performance Forecasting

SAS High-Performance Forecasting 2.3: User's Guide**
Documents the syntax of the High-Performance Forecasting product and demonstrates its use through examples.

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Last updated 18JAN08

SAS High-Performance Forecasting 2.2: User's Guide, Volumes 1 and 2 **
This guide documents the syntax of the High-Performance Forecasting product and demonstrates its use through examples.

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Last updated 27NOV06

SAS/IML

SAS/IML 9.1 User's Guide
Use the examples in this guide as models for developing programs that implement a number of different techniques in statistics, numerical analysis, and linear algebra, and learn to display your results as text or graphs. The language reference section saves you time by providing summaries of the many functions, subroutines, and language keywords that are used in SAS/IML.

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SAS Information Map Studio

SAS Information Map Studio 3.1: Creating Your First Information Map**
Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a SAS Information Map. You will be guided through Data Library Manager in SAS Management Console to register your data in a SAS Metadata Repository and then through SAS Information Map Studio to create the information map. The scenarios in the book use sample data that is provided with Base SAS software, so you can follow the instructions and create a working information map.

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Last updated 19JUN06

SAS Information Map Studio 2.1: Tips and Techniques**
Provides tips and best practices for using SAS Information Map Studio 1.0.1 and 2.1. Each tip begins with a summary of the tip and then provides either background information about the tip or a detailed description of the technique for implementing the tip.

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SAS Information Map Studio 3.1: Tips and Techniques**
Provides tips and best practices for using SAS Information Map Studio 3.1. Each tip begins with a summary of the tip and then provides either background information about the tip or a detailed description of the technique for implementing the tip.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/INSIGHT

SAS/INSIGHT 9.1 User's Guide
This title is your complete documentation source for SAS/INSIGHT software, including a usage section that explains how to accomplish particular tasks as well as a reference section that provides comprehensive descriptions of data, graphs, and analyses.

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Last updated 30OCT06

SAS Integration Technologies

SAS 9.1.3 Integration Technologies: Administrator's Guide, Fourth Edition**
Provides detailed instructions for the administration of the following SAS Integration Technologies features: SAS Foundation Services, SAS Stored Processes, and SAS Publishing Framework.

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Last updated 16NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Integration Technologies: Administrator's Guide (LDAP version)**
Contains administrative documentation for SAS Integration Technologies customers who use an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server or LDIF (LDAP Data Interchange Format) files to define metadata for SAS applications.

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Last updated 07SEP06

SAS 9.1.3 Integration Technologies: Developer's Guide, Fifth Edition**
Provides guidance and reference materials for using the following interfaces that are included in SAS Integration Technologies: SAS Stored Processes, SAS BI Web Services, Publishing Framework, Application Messaging, IOM Java client, IOM Windows client, and Directory Services.

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Last updated 16NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Integration Technologies: Server Administrator's Guide, Third Edition**
Provides detailed instructions for all of the server administration tasks that are required for SAS Workspace servers and spawners, and SAS Stored Process servers and spawners. Also provides general information for administering all IOM servers.

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Last updated 16NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Integration Technologies: Technical Overview**
Provides a high-level overview of the features of SAS Integration Technologies.

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Last updated 16NOV06

SAS Web Infrastructure Kit 1.0: Developer's Guide, Fifth Edition**
Provides information to help you use the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit to develop your own custom applications. It also explains how to use the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit to customize and extend the SAS Information Delivery Portal 2.0 to meet the unique requirements of your organization.

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Last updated 22FEB07

SAS Web Infrastructure Kit 1.0: Overview, Second Edition**
Provides a high-level overview of the features of the SAS Web Infrastructure Kit and the SAS Information Delivery Portal.

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Last updated 16NOV06

SAS Intelligence Platform

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration**
Explains how to configure and manage a SAS Application Server and its components, such as the workspace server, stored process server, OLAP server, and grid server.

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Last updated 23FEB07

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Data Administration Guide**
Describes the products that need to be installed and the metadata objects that need to be created to establish connectivity to data sources and targets. This guide also deals with setting up shared access to SAS data.

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Last updated 17NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Desktop Application Administration Guide**
Explains how to configure and manage SAS applications such as SAS Data Integration Studio, the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, and SAS Information Map Studio. See also the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide, which provides similar coverage for applications that run in a Web browser.

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Last updated 17NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Installation Guide, Fifth Edition**
Provides step-by-step instructions to install and configure the platform. It also addresses some initial configuration tasks. This guide includes a duplicate set of the pre-installation checklists.

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Last updated 15JUN07

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Overview, Second Edition**
This guide is the point-of-entry document for understanding the basics of the SAS Intelligence Platform. It discusses the benefits of the SAS Intelligence Platform to businesses, describes the architecture of the SAS Intelligence Platform, and provides an overview of each software component in the platform.

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Last updated 17NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Pre-installation Checklists, Second Edition**
Provides checklists for recording information about operating system user accounts and groups to be set up, TCP/IP ports to be reserved, and third-party products to be installed. Checklists are provided for Windows, UNIX, and z/OS. The checklists should be used in conjunction with the Installation Guide.

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Last updated 15JUN07

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide, Second Edition**
Explains the security model for the SAS Intelligence Platform and provides instructions for performing security-related administrative tasks. The emphasis is on suite-wide aspects of the security functionality that SAS provides.

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Last updated 22JUN07

SAS Intelligence Platform: Single-User Installation Guide **
Explains how to install a single-user version of the SAS Intelligence Platform plus either SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Enterprise Miner.

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Last updated 23FEB07

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide**
Covers administrative tasks that apply to the platform as a whole, including starting and stopping servers, checking the status of servers, setting server logging options, administering the SAS Metadata Server, administering SAS Metadata Repositories, and scheduling SAS jobs.

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Last updated 15JUN07

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Troubleshooting Your Initial Installation**
Provides a resource for use if any problems are encountered during an initial installation.

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Last updated 17NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide, Third Edition**
Explains how to administer the SAS Web applications that run in the middle tier of the SAS Intelligence Platform. The Web applications include the SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS Web OLAP Viewer for Java. This guide describes the middle-tier environment, provides sample deployment scenarios, and explains how to configure the Web applications for optimal performance. The guide contains instructions for common administrative tasks, such as configuring trusted Web authentication, as well as instructions for administering the individual Web applications. For example, the guide explains how to add content to the SAS Information Delivery Portal and how to control access to that content.

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Last updated 18JUL09

SAS/IntrNet

MDDB Report Viewer
Describes how you use a Web browser to generate and view reports and graphs of data that are stored in a multidimensional database (MDDB).

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/IntrNet 9.1: Application Dispatcher, Third Edition
Learn how to build dynamic applications that give users access to the power of SAS from their Web browsers.

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Last updated 02FEB07

SAS/IntrNet 9.1: htmSQL
Learn how to perform SQL processing from a Web page. You provide an input file containing SQL statements that are embedded in HTML; htmSQL performs updates and queries on your data source and then formats the results.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/IntrNet 9.1: Overview
Describes SAS/IntrNet software, gives details of what's new in SAS/IntrNet 9 and 9.1, and contains a glossary.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS/IntrNet 9.1: SAS/CONNECT Driver for Java
Learn to build Java applications and applets that send requests to SAS servers on behalf of a user using SAS/CONNECT Driver for Java.

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Last updated 16DEC04

SAS/IntrNet 9.1: SAS Design-Time Controls
Learn to create Web pages that contain SAS content in a WYSIWYG, point-and-click fashion. In most cases, you don't have to write a single line of code!

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Last updated 16DEC04

SAS/IntrNet 9.1: Xplore Sample Web Application
Discover how you can dynamically access a variety of SAS data and file types for reporting, generating graphics, and performing drill-down analysis of the Web.

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SAS Inventory Optimization

SAS Inventory Optimization 1.3: User's Guide
Focuses on both single-location and multi-echelon inventory systems and provides the ability to calculate inventory replenishment policies, project inventory and customer service metrics, and simulate policy performance.

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SAS Management Console

SAS Management Console 9.1.3: User's Guide**
Presents introductory and basic information about using SAS Management Console, including plug-ins, connecting to a metadata server, defining a SAS environment, installing a plug-in and the associated help, and managing metadata definitions for resources such as users, servers, libraries, SAS licenses, job schedules, and XMLMaps.

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Last updated 17NOV06

SAS ODBC Driver

SAS ODBC Driver 9.1: User's Guide and Programmer's Reference
Explains how to use and configure the SAS ODBC driver and includes information about defining data sources, defining servers and data libraries, accessing your data, how the driver is implemented, return codes and associated messages, and changes and enhancements to the ODBC driver.

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SAS OLAP Server

SAS 9.1.3 OLAP Server: MDX Guide, Third Edition**
Explains how to use the MDX language in relation to SAS OLAP and discusses basic MDX concepts, MDX queries and syntax, MDX DDL syntax, SAS functions relevant to MDX, MDX usage examples, and MDX functionality supported by SAS.

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Last updated 03APR06

SAS 9.1.3 OLAP Server: User's Guide, Second Edition**
The SAS OLAP Server User's Guide is designed for users who will build, tune, and view SAS OLAP cubes. This guide contains information about building and tuning various types of cubes both with SAS OLAP Cube Studio and with PROC OLAP. It also discusses related topics such as cube file storage, cube tuning and aggregations, and using cubes with various SAS clients and third-party clients.

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Last updated 26OCT06

SAS Open Metadata Architecture

SAS Open Metadata Architecture

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Getting Started with the SAS 9.1.3 Open Metadata Interface, Second Edition**
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.

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Last updated 17NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Java Metadata Interface User's Guide**
This guide explains how to use the SAS Java Metadata Interface to create, read, update, and delete metadata in a SAS metadata repository.

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Last updated 13NOV06

SAS 9.1.3 Open Metadata Interface: Reference, Second Edition
This title describes the major components of the SAS Open Metadata Architecture and provides the basic information that you need to write SAS Open Metadata Interface clients.

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Last updated 15JUN07

SAS 9.1.3 Open Metadata Interface: User's Guide**
This title explains how to use the SAS Open Metadata Interface to create, query, update, and delete metadata about application elements.

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Last updated 14NOV06

SAS/OR

SAS/OR 9.1 User's Guide: Bills of Material Processing
Shows you how to build bills of material from your company's part master and product structure files. The SAS macros provide the ability to generate different reports and to perform several transactions to maintain and update bills of material.

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SAS/OR 9.1 User's Guide: Constraint Programming
Experimental in 9.1, the CLP procedure provides you with an expressive syntax with a choice of interfaces for accurate and flexible modeling, linear, logical, global, and scheduling constraints with powerful consistency routines, strategies for selection and assignment of variables and activities, and controls for guiding the search mechanism.

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SAS/OR 9.1 User's Guide: Local Search Optimization
Describes techniques newly available in SAS to find global optima using intelligent search techniques that are modeled after biological or physical processes. These techniques are flexible and robust, and are applicable to problems where traditional calculus-based methods do not apply or are too difficult or complicated.

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SAS/OR 9.1.3 User's Guide: Mathematical Programming 3.2, Volumes 1-4**
This title covers the major features of the mathematical programming procedures in SAS/OR software and serves as the primary documentation for its optimization procedures. These include the long-established INTPOINT, LP, NETFLOW, and NLP procedures and several comparatively new procedures and solvers. PROC OPTMODEL provides a powerful, expressive language for building and solving optimization problems--linear, mixed-integer, quadratic, and general nonlinear. PROC OPTLP (linear optimization), PROC OPTMILP (mixed-integer optimization), and PROC OPTQP (quadratic optimization) solve specific types of optimization problems. All of the new procedures rely upon a new suite of linear, mixed-integer, quadratic, and nonlinear solvers, each of which is documented in its own chapter. Among the established SAS/OR optimization procedures, PROC NETFLOW now enables you to model and optimize generalized networks.

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SAS/OR 9.1.3 User's Guide: Project Management 2.1 **
Covers the major features of the project planning and scheduling procedures in SAS/OR software and serves as the primary documentation for procedures such as the CPM, PM, GANTT, NETDRAW, DTREE, and PROJMAN procedures. New in SAS/OR 9.1.3, Release 2.1 are the experimental EVM (Earned Value Management) suite of macros and the MSPTOSAS (Microsoft Project data conversion) macro.

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SAS/OR 9.1 User's Guide: QSIM Application
Shows you how to build models using the simple point-and-click graphical user interface, run the models, and collect and analyze the sample data to give you insight into the behavior of the system. For both novice and experienced users.

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SAS/QC

Getting Started with the SAS 9.1 ADX Interface for Design of Experiments
Explains how the ADX interface guides you through the experimentation process covering extensive catalog of standard designs, state-of-the-art algorithms for constructing customized designs, powerful model-fitting techniques, interactive graphics for data exploration and response optimization, HTML report generation, design augmentation techniques, and design import and export wizards.

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SAS/QC 9.1 User's Guide
Provides the SAS/QC user with comprehensive information about the procedures in SAS/QC 9.1 software, including introductory and advanced examples, syntax, computational details, and procedures.

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SAS Scalable Performance Data Server

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.42: Administrator's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.4 users need to use this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to access and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.4.

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Last updated 25JUN07

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.43: Administrator's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.4 users need to use this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to access and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.4.

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Last updated 21NOV07

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.45: Administrator's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.45 (TSM5) administrators need to administer and use this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to organize, access, and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.45 (TSM5).

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Last updated 06JUN08

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.47: Administrator's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.47 (TSM7) administrators need to administer and use this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to organize, access, and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.47 (TSM7).

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Last updated 12NOV08

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.48: Administrator's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.48 (TSM8) administrators need to administer and use this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to organize, access, and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.48 (TSM8).

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Last updated 09MAR09

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.42: User's Guide**
Provides the information that SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.4 users need to use this threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to access and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of the SPD Server 4.4.

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Last updated 25JUN07

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.43: User's Guide**
Provides the information that SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.4 users need to use this threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to access and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of the SPD Server 4.4.

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Last updated 21NOV07

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.45: User's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.45 (TSM5) users need to operate this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to organize, access, and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.45 (TSM5).

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Last updated 06JUN08

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.47: User's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.47 (TSM7) users need to operate this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to organize, access, and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.47 (TSM7).

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Last updated 12NOV08

SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.48: User's Guide**
Provides the information that SPD Server 4.48 (TSM7) users need to operate this multi-threaded, high-performance data delivery tool to process large amounts of SAS data stores. This guide identifies recent product enhancements and instructs users how to organize, access, and manipulate SPD Server tables using the numerous performance features of SPD Server 4.48 (TSM8).

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Last updated 09MAR09

SAS/SHARE

SAS/SHARE 9.1 User's Guide
Learn how to use the transparent access that SAS/SHARE provides to remote data located in SAS files or in external files, regardless of the data representation of the SAS file. You will also learn how to combine and filter data to obtain the most efficient use of network and computing resources.

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SAS/SPECTRAVIEW

SAS/SPECTRAVIEW 9.1 User's Guide
Shows you how to create geometric models of data using isometric surfaces, volumes, cutting planes, and other data visualization and modeling techniques.

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SAS/STAT

Getting Started with the SAS Power and Sample Size Application
Describes the principal features of the power and sample size application in detail. It also shows how to perform several standard analyses using the application, including two-sample t test, analysis of variance, and two-sample survival rank tests.

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The Analyst Application, Second Edition
Provides easy access to both statistical analyses and associated graphical tasks. This title describes how you can import data from a variety of sources, edit values, compute new variables, rearrange your data table, and manage your results with the results tree.

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SAS/STAT 9.1 User's Guide
New chapters for SAS 9.1 describe software for power and sample size computations, robust regression, multiple imputation, crosstabulations, table analysis, and logistic regression for survey data. Also included are syntax and usage information, examples, and a discussion of the use of the Output Delivery System with the statistical software. Many chapters have been updated with SAS 9.1 enhancements.

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SAS/Warehouse Administrator

SAS/Warehouse Administrator 2.3 Metadata API: Reference
Learn how to write SAS Component Language (SCL) applications that publish HTML pages containing the current metadata for a data warehouse, change pathnames in metadata, add columns to a table, update a column attribute, add tables and other objects defined by metadata, and use the API in a SAS macro to generate a LIBNAME statement.

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