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The Power of PROC FORMAT

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book cover The Power of PROC FORMAT
By: Jonas V. Bilenas
ISBN: 978-1-59047-573-7
Pages: 124


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Are you a programmer, statistician, or data analyst tasked with generating reports? Discover how you can put the powerful FORMAT procedure to work for you with The Power of PROC FORMAT. Written in an easy-to-follow tutorial style and illustrated with real-world examples and solutions, this handy guide introduces beginning to intermediate SAS users to the functionality of the FORMAT procedure. Learn how the FORMAT procedure can recategorize data values while doing a variety of tasks, including building user-defined formats and informats, implementing a table lookup in SAS, using the DATA step and other SAS procedures, assigning descriptive labels to data values, creating new variables and finding unexpected values, generating data extracts, and merging data sets.
About the Author

author photo Jonas V. Bilenas, Vice President of Product and Price Optimization at JP Morgan Chase, develops SAS applications for the consumer credit card industry, specializing in credit risk management, credit scoring, forecasting, pricing optimization, reporting, experimental design, and simulation. A SAS user since 1986, he has extensive experience using Base SAS software and applying the FORMAT, FREQ, and TABULATE procedures and the DATA step. Jonas holds an M.B.A. in quantitative analysis and is a frequent presenter at local SAS users group meetings and is an active contributor and speaker at the NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG) conference.