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SAS For Dummies

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book cover SAS For Dummies
By: Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger
ISBN: 978-0-471-78832-4
Pages: 432


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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. The book will introduce the reader to the commonly used features of the software, then jump right into the practical:
  • getting your various types of data into the software
  • producing reports
  • working with the data
  • basic SAS programming
  • macros
  • working with SAS and databases

If you want to learn to be productive using the latest SAS tools and technologies in your daily work, but don't necessarily want to learn SAS programming, then this book was written for you!

About the Authors

author Stephen McDaniel is a west coast-based independent consultant and trainer focused on meeting business needs with simple technical solutions. He loves to help businesses solve their challenges by putting users first with the intelligent merger of data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic capabilities. Previously, Stephen was the Senior Manager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office development teams at SAS. Stephen has been a SAS user for more than 17 years and has experience at over 50 companies as a statistician, statistical programmer, product manager, and manager of data warehousing and business intelligence.

author Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in the Business Intelligence Clients division at SAS. Chris began his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, creating hits such as SAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment (remember OS/2?) and SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment. In 1997 he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easier to use for non-programmers -- that project evolved into the hugely popular SAS Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris has worked with ever since.

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SAScommunity.org

SAScommunity.org is "of the users, by the users, and for the users." It is owned and managed by the SAS Global Forum Executive Board, who developed the vision, determined the kind of functionality needed, and created the Web site's organizational structure.

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Podcast with Chris Hemedinger

Listen to Chris Hemedinger discuss behind-the-scene details about his book, SAS for Dummies, with Shelly Goodin of SAS Press.

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Podcast with Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger