SAS For Dummies^®, 2nd Edition

by Stephen McDaniel; Chris Hemedinger

• ISBN13: 9780470642702
• ISBN10: 047064270X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

The fun and easy way to learn to use this leading business intelligence toolWritten by an author team who is directly involved with SAS, this easy-to-follow guide is fully updated for the latest release of SAS and covers just what you need to put this popular software to work in your business. SAS allows any business or enterprise to improve data delivery, analysis, reporting, movement across a company, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more. SAS For Dummies, 2 nd Edition gives you the necessary background on what SAS can do for you and explains how to use the Enterprise Guide. SAS provides statistical and data analysis tools to help you deal with all kinds of data: operational, financial, performance, and more Places special emphasis on Enterprise Guide and other analytical tools, covering all commonly used features Covers all commonly used features and shows you the practical applications you can put to work in your business Explores how to get various types of data into the software and how to work with databases Covers producing reports and Web reporting tools, analytics, macros, and working with your dataIn the easy-to-follow, no-nonsense For Dummies format, SAS For Dummies gives you the knowledge and the confidence to get SAS working for your organization.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Welcome to SAS!

Touring the Wonderful World of SAS

Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide

Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS

Gathering Data and Presenting Information

Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!

Managing Data: I Can Do That?

Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute

Graphs: More Value with SAS

Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Business Intelligence

A Painless Introduction to Analytics

More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain

Data Mining: Making the Leap from Guesses to Smart Choices

Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces

Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate

Use OLAP and Impress Your Coworkers

Supercharge Microsoft Offi ce with SAS

Web Reporting Fever: SAS Has That Covered

Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll

Setting Up SAS

SAS Programming for the Faint of Heart

The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide

The Part of Tens

Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips

Ten Tips for Administrators

Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information

Index

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