Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

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Art Carpenter demystifies the powerful REPORT procedure and shows you how to incorporate this highly flexible and customizable procedure into your SAS reporting programs.

Combining his years of SAS experience with a talent for instruction, Art offers clear and comprehensive coverage that demonstrates how valuable this procedure is for both summarizing and displaying data. Illustrated with more than two hundred examples and sample exercises to reinforce your learning, Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure provides you with information that you can put to immediate use.

The text is divided into three distinct sections. Part 1 introduces you to PROC REPORT, showing you how it works and "thinks." This section is designed to be read linearly by users who are unfamiliar with the procedure. Part 2 is a collection of increasingly more complex examples that feature advanced options and capabilities. It also introduces the relationship between PROC REPORT and the Output Delivery System (ODS). Part 3 incorporates the options and statements described in Parts 1 and 2 into a series of examples that highlight many of the extended capabilities of PROC REPORT. Included in this section is a discussion of a few ODS statements and options that might be useful to a PROC REPORT programmer, plus an in-depth look at the PROC REPORT process itself, especially as it relates to the execution of compute blocks.

Book Review

"Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure is well written, easy to understand, and useful for the novice as well as the most advanced SAS user. Art's technique of using a spiral approach, starting off with the easiest examples and progressing to the most complex, is ideal.

This is a must-have book if you are a SAS user-period-no matter what level SAS user you are! At some point in your IT activities, you must create a report of some nature. This book will be an asset to you and your career by making you a better SAS IT professional."

Charles Patridge

Sr. Data Engineer

Full Capture Solutions, Inc.

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