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Getting Started with SAS Programming

Get up and running with SAS using Ron Cody’s easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Aimed at beginners, Getting Started with SAS Programming: Using SAS Studio in the Cloud uses short examples to teach SAS programming from the basics to more advanced topics in the point-and-click interactive environment of SAS Studio. To begin, you will learn how to register for SAS OnDemand for Academics, an online delivery platform for teaching and learning statistical analysis that provides free access to SAS software via the cloud. The first part of the book shows you how to use SAS Studio built-in tasks to produce a report, summarize data, and create charts and graphs. It also describes how you can perform basic statistical tests using the interactive point-and-click environment. The second part of the book uses easy-to-follow examples to show you how to write your own SAS programs and how to use SAS procedures to perform a variety of tasks. This part of the book also explains how to read data from a variety of sources: text files, Excel workbooks, and CSV files. In order to get familiar with the SAS Studio environment, this book also shows you how to access dozens of interesting data sets that are included with the SAS OnDemand for Academics platform.

SAS Graphics for Clinical Trials by Example

Create industry-compliant graphs with this practical guide for professionals Analysis of clinical trial results is easier when the data is presented in a visual form. However, clinical graphs must conform to specific guidelines in order to satisfy regulatory agency requirements. If you are a programmer working in the health care and life sciences industry and you want to create straightforward, visually appealing graphs using SAS, then this book is designed specifically for you. Written by two experienced practitioners, the book explains why certain graphs are requested, gives the necessary code to create the graphs, and shows you how to create graphs from ADaM data sets modeled on real-world CDISC pilot study data. SAS Graphics for Clinical Trials by Example demonstrates step-by-step how to create both simple and complex graphs using Graph Template Language (GTL) and statistical graphics procedures, including the SGPLOT and SGPANEL procedures. You will learn how to generate commonly used plots such as Kaplan-Meier plots and multi-cell survival plots as well as special purpose graphs such as Venn diagrams and interactive graphs. Because your graph is only as good as the aesthetic appearance of the output, you will learn how to create a custom style, change attributes, and set output options. Whether you are just learning how to produce graphs or have been working with graphs for a while, this book is a must-have resource to solve even the most challenging clinical graph problems.

Insightful Data Visualization with SAS Viya

Elevate your storytelling with SAS Visual Analytics Data visualization is the gateway to artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. Insightful Data Visualization with SAS Viya shows how the latest SAS Viya tools can be used to create data visualizations in an easier, smarter, and more engaging way than ever before. SAS Visual Analytics combined with human creativity can produce endless possibilities. In this book, you will learn tips and techniques for getting the most from your SAS Visual Analytics investment. From beginners to advanced SAS users, this book has something for everyone. Use AI wizards to create data visualization automatically, learn to use advanced analytics in your dashboards to surface smarter insights, and learn to extend SAS Visual Analytics with advanced integrations and options. Topics covered in this book include: SAS Visual Analytics Data visualization with SAS Reports and dashboards SAS code examples Self-service analytics SAS data access Extending SAS beyond drag and drop

Mastering SAS Programming for Data Warehousing

"Mastering SAS Programming for Data Warehousing" dives into the effective use of SAS for handling large-scale data environments like data warehouses and data lakes. You will learn to design and manage ETL processes using SAS, standardize workflows with macros and arrays, and connect SAS to other systems to enhance reporting and data visualization. What this Book will help me do Master efficient data input/output management in SAS environments. Design and maintain robust ETL pipelines using SAS macros and arrays. Identify and address data warehouse user requirements. Utilize Output Delivery System (ODS) to create professional reports. Integrate SAS with external systems for optimized data processing. Author(s) Monika Wahi brings extensive SAS programming experience coupled with a strong background in data warehousing and data analysis. Her insightful approach demystifies complex topics, focusing on equipping readers with practical skills. Her collaborative writing style makes advanced concepts accessible and applicable to real-world scenarios. Who is it for? This book is designed for data professionals such as architects, managers leading data-intensive projects, and SAS programmers or developers. It's ideal for those with foundational SAS experience who aspire to manage, maintain, or develop data lakes, marts, or warehouses effectively. The book offers a logical progression from basic concepts to advanced implementations, tailored for ambitious learners.

Learn Data Science Using SAS Studio: A Quick-Start Guide

Do you want to create data analysis reports without writing a line of code? This book introduces SAS Studio, a free data science web browser-based product for educational and non-commercial purposes. The power of SAS Studio comes from its visual point-and-click user interface that generates SAS code. It is easier to learn SAS Studio than to learn R and Python to accomplish data cleaning, statistics, and visualization tasks. The book includes a case study about analyzing the data required for predicting the results of presidential elections in the state of Maine for 2016 and 2020. In addition to the presidential elections, the book provides real-life examples including analyzing stocks, oil and gold prices, crime, marketing, and healthcare. You will see data science in action and how easy it is to perform complicated tasks and visualizations in SAS Studio.You will learn, step-by-step, how to do visualizations, including maps. In most cases, you will not need a line of code as you work with the SAS Studio graphical user interface. The book includes explanations of the code that SAS Studio generates automatically. You will learn how to edit this code to perform more complicated advanced tasks. The book introduces you to multiple SAS products such as SAS Viya, SAS Analytics, and SAS Visual Statistics. What You Will Learn Become familiar with SAS Studio IDE Understand essential visualizations Know the fundamental statistical analysis required in most data science and analytics reports Clean the most common data set problems Use linear progression for data prediction Write programs in SAS Get introduced to SAS-Viya, which is more potent than SAS studio Who This Book Is For A general audience of people who are new to data science, students, and data analysts and scientists who are experiencedbut new to SAS. No programming or in-depth statistics knowledge is needed.

Smart Data Discovery Using SAS Viya

Whether you are an executive, departmental decision maker, or analyst, the need to leverage data and analytical techniques in order make critical business decisions is now crucial to every part of an organization. Gain Powerful Insights with SAS Viya! Smart Data Discovery with SAS Viya: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex questions using your data. The book highlights key components of a smart data discovery process utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, powerful capabilities from SAS Viya, and finally brings it all together using real examples and applications. With its step-by-step approach and integrated examples, the book provides a relevant and practical guide to insight discovery that goes beyond traditional charts and graphs. By showcasing the powerful visual modeling capabilities of SAS Viya, it also opens up the world of advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to a much broader set of audiences.

Model Risk Management with SAS

Cut through the complexity of model risk management with a guide to solutions from SAS! There is an increasing demand for more model governance and model risk awareness. At the same time, high-performing models are expected to be deployed faster than ever. SAS Model Risk Management is a user-friendly, web-based application that facilitates the capture and life cycle management of statistical model-related information. It enables all stakeholders in the model life cycle — developers, validators, internal audit, and management – to get overview reports as well as detailed information in one central place. Model Risk Management with SAS introduces you to the features and capabilities of this software, including the entry, collection, transfer, storage, tracking, and reporting of models that are drawn from multiple lines of business across an organization. This book teaches key concepts, terminology, and base functionality that are integral to SAS Model Risk Management through hands-on examples and demonstrations. With this guide to SAS Model Risk Management, your organization can be confident it is making fact-based decisions and mitigating model risk.

SAS Stored Processes: A Practical Guide to Developing Web Applications

Customize the SAS Stored Process web application to create amazing tools for end users. This book shows you how to use stored processes—SAS programs stored on a server and executed as required by requesting applications. Never before have there been so many ways to turn data into information and build applications with SAS. This book teaches you how to use the web technologies that you frequently see used on impressive websites. By using SAS Stored Processes, you will be able to build applications that exploit CSS, JavaScript, and HTML libraries and enable you to build powerful and impressive web applications using SAS as the backend.While this approach is not common with SAS users, some have had amazing results. People who have SAS skills usually do not have web development skills, and those with web development skills usually do not have SAS skills. Some people have both skills but are unaware of how to connect them with the SAS Stored Process web application. This book shows you how to leverage your skills for success. What You Will Learn Know the benefits of stored processes Write your own tools in SAS Make a stored process generate its own HTML menu Pass data between stored processes Use stored processes to generate pure JavaScript Utilize data generated by SAS Convert a SAS program into a stored process Who This Book Is For SAS programmers looking to improve their existing programming skills to develop web applications, and programming managers who want to make better use of the SAS software they already license

Machine Learning with SAS Viya

Master machine learning with SAS Viya! Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open-source code? Machine Learning with SAS Viya has you covered – step-by-step instructions are given on how to use SAS Model Manager tools with open source. SAS Model Studio features are highlighted to show how to carry out machine learning in SAS Viya. Demonstrations, practice tasks, and quizzes are included to help sharpen your skills. In this book, you will learn about: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning Data preparation and dealing with missing and unstructured data Model building and selection Improving and optimizing models Model deployment and monitoring performance

Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Is your company ready for the next wave of analytics? Data analytics offer the opportunity to predict the future, use advanced technologies, and gain valuable insights about your business. But unless you're staying on top of the latest developments, your company is wasting that potential--and your competitors will be gaining speed while you fall behind. Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's essential thinking about what data analytics are capable of, what critical talents your company needs to reap their benefits, and how to adopt analytics throughout your organization--before it's too late. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

DAX Cookbook

"DAX Cookbook: Over 120 recipes to enhance your business with analytics, reporting, and business intelligence" is the ultimate guidebook for mastering DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) in business intelligence, Power BI, and SQL Server Analysis Services. With hands-on examples and extensive recipes, it enables professionals to solve real-world data challenges effectively. What this Book will help me do Understand how to create tailored calculations for dates, time, and duration to enhance data insights. Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and advanced business metrics for strategic decision-making. Master text and numerical data transformations to construct dynamic dashboards and reports. Optimize data models and DAX queries for improved performance and analytics accuracy. Learn to handle and debug calculations, and implement complex statistical and mathematical measures. Author(s) Greg Deckler is a seasoned business intelligence professional with extensive experience in using DAX and Power BI to provide actionable insights. As a recognized expert in the field, Greg brings practical knowledge of developing scalable BI solutions. His teaching approach is rooted in clarity and real-world application, making complex topics accessible to learners of all levels. Who is it for? This book is perfect for business professionals, BI developers, and data analysts with basic knowledge of the DAX language and associated tools. If you are looking to enhance your DAX skills and solve tough analytical challenges, this book is tailored for you. It's highly relevant for those aiming to optimize business intelligence workflows and improve data-driven decisions.

JMP Essentials, 3rd Edition

Grasp the essentials of JMP to generate rapid results. JMP Essentials: An Illustrated Guide for New Users, Third Edition, is designed for new or novice JMP users who need to generate meaningful analysis quickly. The book focuses on the most commonly used platforms and typical workflow of the user, from data importing, exploring, and visualizing to modeling and sharing results with others. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize results over theory, providing just the essential steps with corresponding screenshots. In most cases, each section completes a JMP task, which maximizes the book’s utility as a reference. This edition has new instructions and screenshots reflecting the features added to the latest release of JMP software, including updated sections on JMP Dashboard Builder, Query Builder, the Fit Model platform, JMP Public and JMP Live, and a more detailed look at the JMP website. Each chapter contains a family of features that are carefully crafted to first introduce you to basic features and then move on to more advanced topics. JMP Essentials: An Illustrated Guide for New Users, Third Edition, is the quickest and most accessible reference book available.

Intelligence at the Edge

Explore powerful SAS analytics and the Internet of Things! The world that we live in is more connected than ever before. The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of mechanical and electronic devices connected to one another and to software through the internet. Businesses can use the IoT to quickly make intelligent decisions based on massive amounts of data gathered in real time from these connected devices. IoT increases productivity, lowers operating costs, and provides insights into how businesses can serve existing markets and expand into new ones. Intelligence at the Edge: Using SAS with the Internet of Things is for anyone who wants to learn more about the rapidly changing field of IoT. Current practitioners explain how to apply SAS software and analytics to derive business value from the Internet of Things. The cornerstone of this endeavor is SAS Event Stream Processing, which enables you to process and analyze continuously flowing events in real time. With step-by-step guidance and real-world scenarios, you will learn how to apply analytics to streaming data. Each chapter explores a different aspect of IoT, including the analytics life cycle, monitoring, deployment, geofencing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, condition-based maintenance, computer vision, and edge devices.

Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition

Hone your SAS skills with Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition! Now in its sixth edition, the best-selling The Little SAS Book just keeps getting better. Readers worldwide study this easy-to-follow book to help them learn the basics of SAS programming. Rebecca Ottesen has once again teamed up with the authors of The Little SAS Book, Lora Delwiche and Susan Slaughter, to provide a way to challenge and improve your SAS skills through thought-provoking questions, exercises, and projects. Each chapter has been updated to match The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition. The book contains a mixture of multiple-choice questions, open-ended discussion topics, and programming exercises with selected answers and hints. It also includes comprehensive programming projects that are designed to encourage self-study and to test the skills developed by The Little SAS Book. Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition is a hands-on workbook that is designed to improve your SAS skills whether you are a student or a professional.

Hands-On Business Intelligence with DAX

Hands-On Business Intelligence with DAX is your comprehensive guide to mastering DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) within the context of Power BI, Excel Power Pivot, and more. You will learn how to craft powerful DAX queries, build efficient data models, and gain actionable insights from your data. What this Book will help me do Gain a comprehensive understanding of DAX query language and its applications. Learn the skills to create and optimize data models using real-world examples. Master the techniques needed to write advanced DAX expressions with confidence. Understand key DAX functions for complex data aggregation and calculations. Develop expertise in using DAX to derive deeper insights from diverse datasets. Author(s) None Horne is an experienced data professional passionate about teaching DAX and data modeling concepts in easy and approachable ways. With years of experience in business intelligence and a knack for breaking down complex topics, None Horne equips you with knowledge you can apply immediately. Who is it for? This book is ideal for business intelligence analysts, data professionals, and Power BI users who wish to enhance their DAX expertise. It is well-suited for readers with a basic understanding of BI concepts looking to expand their skills. Pragmatic learners looking to apply DAX to solve data problems will find this book highly practical. If you are keen to develop more efficient workflows and deeper data insights, this book fits your needs.

Pro DAX with Power BI: Business Intelligence with PowerPivot and SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular

Learn the intricate workings of DAX and the mechanics that are necessary to solve advanced Power BI challenges. This book is all about DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), the formula language used in Power BI—Microsoft’s leading self-service business intelligence application—and covers other products such as PowerPivot and SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular. You will learn how to leverage the advanced applications of DAX to solve complex tasks. Often a task seems complex due to a lack of understanding, or a misunderstanding of core principles, and how certain components interact with each other. The authors of this book use solutions and examples to teach you how to solve complex problems. They explain the intricate workings of important concepts such as Filter Context and Context Transition. You will learn how Power BI, through combining DAX building blocks (such as measures, table filtering, and data lineage), can yield extraordinary analytical power. Throughout Pro Dax with Power BI these building blocks are used to create and compose solutions for advanced DAX problems, so you can independently build solutions to your own complex problems, and gain valuable insight from your data. What You Will Learn Understand the intricate workings of DAX to solve advanced problems Deconstruct problems into manageable parts in order to create your own recipes Apply predefined solutions for addressing problems, and link back step-by-step to the mechanics of DAX, to know the foundation of this powerful query language Get fully on board with DAX, a new and evolving language, by learning best practices Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants to use Power BI to build advanced and complex models. Some experience writing DAX is helpful, but not essential if you have experience with other data query languages such as MDX or SQL.

Practical Data Analysis with JMP, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

Master the concepts and techniques of statistical analysis using JMP Practical Data Analysis with JMP, Third Edition, highlights the powerful interactive and visual approach of JMP to introduce readers to statistical thinking and data analysis. It helps you choose the best technique for the problem at hand by using real-world cases. It also illustrates best-practice workflow throughout the entire investigative cycle, from asking valuable questions through data acquisition, preparation, analysis, interpretation, and communication of findings. The book can stand on its own as a learning resource for professionals, or it can be used to supplement a college-level textbook for an introductory statistics course. It includes varied examples and problems using real sets of data. Each chapter typically starts with an important or interesting research question that an investigator has pursued. Reflecting the broad applicability of statistical reasoning, the problems come from a wide variety of disciplines, including engineering, life sciences, business, and economics, as well as international and historical examples. Application Scenarios at the end of each chapter challenge you to use your knowledge and skills with data sets that go beyond mere repetition of chapter examples. New in the third edition, chapters have been updated to demonstrate the enhanced capabilities of JMP, including projects, Graph Builder, Query Builder, and Formula Depot.

SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

The official guide by the SAS Global Certification Program, SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide: Advanced Programming Using SAS 9.4 prepares you to take the new SAS 9.4 Advanced Programming Performance-Based Exam. New in this edition is a workbook whose sample scenarios require you to write code to solve problems and answer questions. Answers to the chapter quizzes and solutions to 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 SQL processing, SAS macro language processing, and advanced SAS programming techniques. All exam topics are covered in the following chapters: SQL Processing with SAS PROC SQL Fundamentals Creating and Managing Tables Joining Tables Using PROC SQL Joining Tables Using Set Operators Using Subqueries Advanced SQL Techniques SAS Macro Language Processing Creating and Using Macro Variables Storing and Processing Text Working with Macro Programs Advanced Macro Techniques Advanced SAS Programming Techniques Defining and Processing Arrays Processing Data Using Hash Objects Using SAS Utility Procedures Using Advanced Functions Practice Programming Scenarios (Workbook)

The Little SAS Book, 6th Edition

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.

Introduction to Biostatistics with JMP

Explore biostatistics using JMP in this refreshing introduction Presented in an easy-to-understand way, Introduction to Biostatistics with JMP introduces undergraduate students in the biological sciences to the most commonly used (and misused) statistical methods that they will need to analyze their experimental data using JMP. It covers many of the basic topics in statistics using biological examples for exercises so that the student biologists can see the relevance to future work in the problems addressed. The book starts by teaching students how to become confident in executing the right analysis by thinking like a statistician then moves into the application of specific tests. Using the powerful capabilities of JMP, the book addresses problems requiring analysis by chi-square tests, t tests, ANOVA analysis, various regression models, DOE, and survival analysis. Topics of particular interest to the biological or health science field include odds ratios, relative risk,