SAS certification prep guide
Subtitle: base programming for SAS 9.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: SAS Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cary, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9781607640455
Subjects: Examinations; Computer programming; Certification; SAS (Computer file); Study guides; Database management; Electronic data processing personnel
Other titles: SAS documentation; Base programming for SAS 9
Notes: Includes index.

System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT, or Windows XP; SAS 9. Also, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later; JavaScript enabled; Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6.0 or later.
Table of contents: title: Basic concepts; title: Referencing files and setting options; title: Editing and debugging SAS programs; title: Creating list reports; title: Creating SAS data sets from raw files and Excel work-sheets; title: Understanding DATA step processing; title: Creating and applying user-defined formats; title: Creating enhanced list and summary reports; title: Producing descriptive statistics; title: Producing HTML output; title: Creating and managing variables; title: Reading SAS data sets; title: Combining SAS data sets; title: Transforming data with SAS functions; title: Generating data with DO loops; title: Processing variables with arrays; title: Reading raw data in fixed fields; title: Reading free-format data; title: Reading date and time values; title: Creating a single observation from multiple records; title: Creating multiple observations from a single record; title: Reading hierarchical files; title: Quiz answer keys.