Professional SAS Programming Shortcuts

The most valuable collection of SAS programming tips, techniques, and algorithms ever assembled in one book.

Pages

448

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. The Log
• 2. Program Files
• 3. Startup
• 4. System Options
• 5. Libraries
• 6. Dataset Options
• 7. Indexes
• 8. Actions on SAS Datasets
• 9. Data Type and Length
• 10. Text Data Files
• 11. Data Fields
• 12. Delimited Files
• 13. Hierarchical Files
• 14. Binary Files
• 15. Value Formats
• 16. Value Informats
• 17. Picture Formats for Numbers
• 18. Format Catalogs and Control Datasets
• 19. Time
• 20. Informats and Formats for Time
• 21. International Date Formats
• 22. Picture Formats for Time
• 23. Validation
• 24. Strings
• 25. Parsing
• 26. Variable-Length Strings
• 27. Foreign Data Types
• 28. Codes
• 29. Text Encryption
• 30. Discrete Binary Encoding
• 31. Bitfields
• 32. Numeric Effects
• 33. Missing Values
• 34. Boolean Values
• 35. Financial Calculations
• 36. Time Conversions
• 37. Time Arithmetic
• 38. Extending the Observation Loop
• 39. Loops
• 40. Character Loops
• 41. Subsetting and Sampling
• 42. SQL
• 43. Sorting
• 44. Groups
• 45. Incomplete Data
• 46. Transposing
• 47. Frequency Tables
• 48. Descriptive Statistics
• 49. Summary Statistics in Computations
• 50. Type Conversion
• 51. Combining Data
• 52. Table Lookup
• 53. Table Lookup From SAS Data Files
• 54. Value Formats for Table Lookup
• 55. Calendars
• 56. Multiple Text Files
• 57. Print Files
• 58. Table Reports
• 59. Data Step Report Programming
• 60. Data Step Views
• 61. Macro Variables
• 62. Macros
• 63. Macro Programming
• 64. Program Parameters
• 65. Generating Program Statements
• 66. Control Reports
• 67. Cleaning Up a Program
• 68. Macro Cleanup
• 69. Efficiency
• 70. Saving Storage Space
• 71. Compression
• 72. Porting Files and Data
• 73. Porting SAS Programs
• 74. Translating Programs
• 75. Style
• 76. Data Step Windows
• 77. Macro Windows
• 78. Interactive Line Mode
• 79. Menu Bars
• 80. Command Processing
• 81. Text Processing
• 82. Text Analysis
• 83. Random Numbers
• 84. Simulations
• 85. Legacy Systems
• 86. Database Applications
• 87. Client-Server Design
• 88. Classic Problems
• Afterword
• Index

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