Is This Book for You?

This book is aimed at all levels of SAS users from all disciplines. Basic knowledge of SAS programming is necessary to understand the examples in this book. You should know how to write a DATA step and how to specify procedures. The most common Base SAS procedures used are PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE. A few examples illustrate ODS features with SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH procedures, but a detailed knowledge of these products is not necessary to understand the ODS concepts being presented.

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Beginning Users

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