SAS Programming: The One-Day Course

Aimed at researchers and students , SAS Programming: The One-Day Course provides an introduction to the SAS programming language. It gives the reader a start in SAS programming and the basic data manipulations and statistical summaries that are available through SAS. The book has its origins in material prepared by the author for a one-day course in SAS programming, and the fact that it has been developed from a training course is reflected in the concise nature of the presentation.

Unlike other introductory competitors on the market, this is a pocket-sized reference that does not clutter the programming techniques presented by trying to teach statistical techniques at the same time. Strong on explanations of how to carry out data manipulations that real-life data often call for, each programming technique is supported by tasks to develop skills and confidence. It also contains "tasks" for the reader, complete with solutions. Datasets and the programming code are available to download from www.crcpress.com/e_products/downloads.

Once readers have mastered the topics covered in the book, they will be well placed to learn further aspects of SAS programming.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCING SAS
Operating SAS
Operating SAS with Microsoft Windows
READING DATA INTO SAS
What Is Plain Text?
Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF) Data
Giving Labels to Variables
Category Labels
Using Simple Arithmetic to Create a New Variable
PROC IMPORT
Reading Dates and Times
Tasks
SAVING AND OUTPUT OF SAS DATASETS
Permanent Datasets
Data Manipulation, Permanent Datasets and the SET Statement
PROC Report
PUT
PROC EXPORT
Tasks
MANIPULATING DATASETS
Merging Datasets
Concatenating Datasets
Merging and Concatenating in One Program
Further Manipulating of Datasets
Tasks
RESTRUCTURING DATASETS
Splitting One Row of Data into Several Rows
Combining Several Rows of Data into One Row
Tasks
SUMMARISING DATA
PROC MEANS
PROC UNIVARIATE
PROC FREQ
Tasks
TABULATING DATA
PROC MEANS
PROC TABULATE for Summarising Data
PROC TABULATE for Cross-tabulations
Tasks
FORMAT AND SAVING OF SAS OUTPUT
Output Delivery System
Saving SAS Output as a SAS Dataset
Tasks
GRAPHICS IN SAS
Los Angeles Depression Data
Histogram of CESD Score
Bar Chart of Marital Status
Bar Chart of Religion Grouped by Marital Status
Pie Chart of Marital Status
Plot of CESD Score Against Age
Tasks
AN INTRODUCTION TO MACROS
Example of a Macro to Print Datasets
Example of a Macro to Create and Format a Histogram
Tasks
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Nurses' Glove Use Data
Appendix B: Los Angeles Depression Data
Appendix C: Solution Programs for Tasks