SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS9, Fourth Edition
- 6h 47m
- SAS Institute
- SAS Institute
- 2017
New and experienced SAS users who want to prepare for the Base Programming for SAS 9 exam will find the SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9 to be an invaluable, convenient, and comprehensive resource that covers all of the objectives tested on the exam. Major topics include importing and exporting raw data files, creating and modifying SAS data sets, and identifying and correcting data syntax and programming logic errors. Now in its fourth addition, the guide has been extensively updated and revised to streamline explanations.
The chapter quizzes have been thoroughly updated and full solutions are included at the back of the book.
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In this Book
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How to Prepare for the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 Exam
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Accessibility Features of the SAS Certification Prep Guide
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Setting up Practice Data
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Basic Concepts
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Setting up Your SAS Session
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Identifying and Correcting Errors
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Creating List Reports
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Creating SAS Data Sets from External Files
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Understanding DATA Step Processing
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Creating and Applying User-Defined Formats
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Producing Descriptive Statistics
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Creating Output with ODS
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Creating and Managing Variables
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Reading SAS Data Sets
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Combining SAS Data Sets
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Using Functions to Manipulate Data
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Processing Data with DO Loops
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Processing Data with Arrays
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Reading Raw Data in Fixed Fields
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Reading and Creating Raw Data in Free-Format
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SAS Date and Time Values
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Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Raw Data Records
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Creating Multiple Observations from a Single Raw Data Record
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Conditioning Raw Data Files
