How To Become A Top Sas Programmer

Would you like to be a top SAS programmer? Would you like to be the person that other SAS programmers turn to for solutions to programming problems? If so, then How to Become a Top SAS Programmer, written by Michael Raithel is the book for you. This self-help book provides invaluable strategies for enhancing your SAS programming skills and introduces you to a wide variety of SAS resources that are readily available to you. Inside this book, you will learn: what makes a top SAS programmer fundamentals that every top SAS programmer should master ideas for advancing your SAS career within your organization where to find SAS documentation to learn new programming techniques how to participate in local and regional SAS user groups and SAS Global Forum how to make SAS training and certification work for you how to take part in SAS virtual communities to learn, contribute, and become well-known ...and much more Want to increase your SAS acumen, solidify the use of SAS in your organization, be a greater benefit to your organization as a SAS programmer, contribute to the world-wide SAS community, and enjoy good career growth? Michael's book will help the novice SAS programmer or a seasoned professional to do all that and more. Start reading it now and become the top SAS programmer in your organization who everyone goes to for insight and guidance into the many aspects of the SAS world! This book is part of the SAS Press program.

How to Become a Top SAS Programmer is designed to help SAS programmers maximize their value to an organization. Users will gain a better understanding of the SAS resources available to them so that they can enhance their SAS skills and knowledge, thereby becoming better SAS programmers.

The SAS® Certified Specialist Prep Guide: Base Programming Using SAS® 9.4 prepares you to take the new SAS 9.4 Base Programming -- Performance-Based Exam. This is the official guide by the SAS Global Certification Program. This prep guide is for both new and experienced SAS users, and it covers all the objectives that are tested on the exam. New in this edition is a workbook whose sample scenarios require you to write code to solve problems and answer questions. Answers for the chapter quizzes and solutions for the sample scenarios in the workbook are included. You will also find links to exam objectives, practice exams, and other resources such as the Base SAS® glossary and a list of practice data sets. Major topics include importing data, creating and modifying SAS data sets, and identifying and correcting both data syntax and programming logic errors. All exam topics are covered in these chapters: Setting Up Practice Data Basic Concepts Accessing Your Data Creating SAS Data Sets Identifying and Correcting SAS Language Errors Creating Reports Understanding DATA Step Processing BY-Group Processing Creating and Managing Variables Combining SAS Data Sets Processing Data with DO Loops SAS Formats and Informats SAS Date, Time, and Datetime Values Using Functions to Manipulate Data Producing Descriptive Statistics Creating Output Practice Programming Scenarios (Workbook)

Learn to program SAS by example! Learning SAS by Example, A Programmer’s Guide, Second Edition, teaches SAS programming from very basic concepts to more advanced topics. Because most programmers prefer examples rather than reference-type syntax, this book uses short examples to explain each topic. The second edition has brought this classic book on SAS programming up to the latest SAS version, with new chapters that cover topics such as PROC SGPLOT and Perl regular expressions. This book belongs on the shelf (or e-book reader) of anyone who programs in SAS, from those with little programming experience who want to learn SAS to intermediate and even advanced SAS programmers who want to learn new techniques or identify new ways to accomplish existing tasks. In an instructive and conversational tone, author Ron Cody clearly explains each programming technique and then illustrates it with one or more real-life examples, followed by a detailed description of how the program works. The text is divided into four major sections: Getting Started, DATA Step Processing, Presenting and Summarizing Your Data, and Advanced Topics. Subjects addressed include Reading data from external sources Learning details of DATA step programming Subsetting and combining SAS data sets Understanding SAS functions and working with arrays Creating reports with PROC REPORT and PROC TABULATE Getting started with the SAS macro language Leveraging PROC SQL Generating high-quality graphics Using advanced features of user-defined formats and informats Restructuring SAS data sets Working with multiple observations per subject Getting started with Perl regular expressions You can test your knowledge and hone your skills by solving the problems at the end of each chapter.

SAS Programming for R Users, based on the free SAS Education course of the same name, is designed for experienced R users who want to transfer their programming skills to SAS. Emphasis is on programming and not statistical theory or interpretation. You will learn how to write programs in SAS that replicate familiar functions and capabilities in R. This book covers a wide range of topics including the basics of the SAS programming language, how to import data, how to create new variables, random number generation, linear modeling, Interactive Matrix Language (IML), and many other SAS procedures. This book also explains how to write R code directly in the SAS code editor for seamless integration between the two tools. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter so that you can test your knowledge and practice your programming skills.

A classic that just keeps getting better, The Little SAS Book is essential for anyone learning SAS programming. Lora Delwiche and Susan Slaughter offer a user-friendly approach so that readers can quickly and easily learn the most commonly used features of the SAS language. Each topic is presented in a self-contained, two-page layout complete with examples and graphics. Nearly every section has been revised to ensure that the sixth edition is fully up-to-date. This edition is also interface-independent, written for all SAS programmers whether they use SAS Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, or the SAS windowing environment. New sections have been added covering PROC SQL, iterative DO loops, DO WHILE and DO UNTIL statements, %DO statements, using variable names with special characters, the ODS EXCEL destination, and the XLSX LIBNAME engine. This title belongs on every SAS programmer's bookshelf. It's a resource not just to get you started, but one you will return to as you continue to improve your programming skills. Learn more about the updates to The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition here. Reviews for The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition can be read here.

Learn data science concepts with real-world examples in SAS! End-to-End Data Science with SAS: A Hands-On Programming Guide provides clear and practical explanations of the data science environment, machine learning techniques, and the SAS programming knowledge necessary to develop machine learning models in any industry. The book covers concepts including understanding the business need, creating a modeling data set, linear regression, parametric classification models, and non-parametric classification models. Real-world business examples and example code are used to demonstrate each process step-by-step. Although a significant amount of background information and supporting mathematics are presented, the book is not structured as a textbook, but rather it is a user’s guide for the application of data science and machine learning in a business environment. Readers will learn how to think like a data scientist, wrangle messy data, choose a model, and evaluate the model’s effectiveness. New data scientists or professionals who want more experience with SAS will find this book to be an invaluable reference. Take your data science career to the next level by mastering SAS programming for machine learning models.

An indispensable guide to SAS Clinical Programming, this book is the first guide on this topic, to be written by an Indian author. Written in an instructive and conversational tone for people who want to make their career in SAS Clinical Programming and entry level programmers for their day-to-day tasks. It is equipped with practical, real world examples, detailed description of programs, work flows, issues, resolutions and key techniques. This book is a personal SAS Clinical trainer. It explains the art of SAS Clinical Programming in eighteen easy steps, covering everything from basics to ADS, TLF Creation, as well as CDISC SDTM and ADaM specifications. Many statistical concepts are explained in an easy way so that you feel confident while using Statistical Procedures. If you are already working as a SAS Clinical Programmer, this book will aid you with sharpening your skills.