Kirby Thomas
Technical Communicator, SAS
Kirby Thomas is a Technical Communicator at SAS who enjoys taking complex concepts and breaking them down into easy-to-understand steps. She has a Ph.D. in Sociology from Florida State University, where her research focused on why women are less likely than men to major and persist in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Her passion for creating more accessible and equitable learning environments was cultivated in her job at the Florida Department of Education and continues to motivate her work every day. She has over 9 years of experience programming in SAS and is excited to share her lessons learned with new programmers so that they can feel empowered to dive into coding without the hindrance of perfection paralysis.
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The Simple Guide to SAS®: From Null to Novice
By Kirby Thomas
Start your journey with SAS.
Have you just accepted a new job as a data analyst and need to learn SAS fast? Or perhaps you want to make a career change into programming and you’re not sure where to begin. The Simple Guide to SAS: From Null to Novice is the perfect book to get you started. Written for individuals with no prior programming experience, this book teaches the basics of learning SAS using hands-on examples and step-by-step explanations in a short, easy to understand guide.
Topics covered in this book include:
- DATA and PROC Steps
- DATA Step Processing
- Setting up SAS Libraries
- Importing and Exporting Data
- Viewing and Summarizing Data
- Sorting and Deduplicating Data
- Filtering Data and Conditional Logic
- SAS Functions
- Formatting Variables
- Combining and Aggregating Data.
Read an excerpt and find the example code and the code snippet organizer:
Featured Authors
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Robert N. Rodriguez retired from SAS in 2018 after serving as a senior director in research and development. Bob received a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a research statistician at General Motors Research Laboratories before joining SAS.
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Ron Klimberg, PhD, is a professor at the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.
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Todd Case has been working in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistical programmer for over 20 years. He completed his MS in Epidemiology from Columbia University and has worked at Forest Laboratories (now Allergan), Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Biogen. He currently works at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
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Terisa Roberts is a director and Global Solution lead for Risk Modeling and Decisioning at SAS. She has extensive experience in quantitative risk management, regulatory compliance, and model governance and validation. She has worked in financial services, telecommunications, government, energy, and retail sectors.