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SAS For Dummies book cover

SAS For Dummies

Authors:

Stephen McDaniel ,

Chris Hemedinger

Overview

The fun and easy way to learn to use this leading business intelligence tool

Written by an author team who is directly involved with SAS, this easy-to-follow guide is fully updated for the latest release of SAS and covers just what you need to put this popular software to work in your business. SAS allows any business or enterprise to improve data delivery, analysis, reporting, movement across a company, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more. SAS For Dummies, 2^nd Edition gives you the necessary background on what SAS can do for you and explains how to use the Enterprise Guide.

SAS provides statistical and data analysis tools to help you deal with all kinds of data: operational, financial, performance, and more
Places special emphasis on Enterprise Guide and other analytical tools, covering all commonly used features
Covers all commonly used features and shows you the practical applications you can put to work in your business
Explores how to get various types of data into the software and how to work with databases
Covers producing reports and Web reporting tools, analytics, macros, and working with your data

In the easy-to-follow, no-nonsense For Dummies format, SAS For Dummies gives you the knowledge and the confidence to get SAS working for your organization.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

The fun and easy way to learn to use this leading business intelligence tool

Written by an author team who is directly involved with SAS, this easy-to-follow guide is fully updated for the latest release of SAS and covers just what you need to put this popular software to work in your business. SAS allows any business or enterprise to improve data delivery, analysis, reporting, movement across a company, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more. SAS For Dummies, 2^nd Edition gives you the necessary background on what SAS can do for you and explains how to use the Enterprise Guide.

SAS provides statistical and data analysis tools to help you deal with all kinds of data: operational, financial, performance,

and more

Places special emphasis on Enterprise Guide and other analytical tools, covering all commonly used features

Covers all commonly used features and shows you the practical applications you can put to work in your business

Explores how to get various types of data into the software and how to work with databases

Covers producing reports and Web reporting tools, analytics, macros, and working with your data

In the easy-to-follow, no-nonsense For Dummies format, SAS For Dummies gives you the knowledge and the confidence to get SAS working for your organization.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

SAS For Dummies Cheat Sheet

SAS Institute has hundreds of statistical analysis system products, so a partial list of the ones you might run will help you know which one to use for your job. The tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office create SAS programs that call on SAS procedures. Having a list of those procedures and being able to find them quickly in SAS Enterprise Guide will boost your efficiency.

About The Authors

Stephen McDaniel is Principal and cofounder of Freakalytics™ LLC, which provides training and consulting for data presentation, visual data exploration, and dashboard development. Chris Hemedinger works in SAS R&D on the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, a popular user interface for SAS customers.