About This Book

Who Needs this Book

This book is for all new SAS users in business, government, and academia, or for anyone who will be conducting data analysis using SAS. You need no prior experience with SAS software, but if you have some experience you may still find this book useful for learning techniques you missed or for reference.

What this Book Covers

This book introduces you to the SAS language with lots of practical examples, clear and concise explanations, and as little technical jargon as possible. Most of the features covered here come from Base SAS software, which contains the core of features used by all SAS programmers. One exception is Chapter 8 which includes some procedures from SAS/STAT software. Other exceptions appear in

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