SAS author's tip: Understanding tokens

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|June 7, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Michele Burlew and her book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition. Michele is the author of several extremely helpful SAS books. Visit her author page to learn more about her work and for additional free content. The following excerpt is from SAS Press [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using PROC MEANS to create a data set containing summary information

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 24, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his latest book Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. Learn more about this esteemed user and his many bestselling SAS books–as well as get additional bonus content on his author page. The following excerpt is from [...]

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SAS author's tip: Structured thinking about writing programs

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 15, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from A. John Bailer and his book Statistical Programming in SAS. A SAS user for over 30 years, John is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Society for Risk Analysis–and a member of the International Biometric Society and the International Statistical Institute. The following [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using a MODIFY statement to update a master file from a transaction file

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 1, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his new book Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. If you’re a SAS user and haven’t explored Ron’s work, you’re missing out! Visit Ron’s author page to view his extensive list of SAS books, user [...]

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SAS author's tip: Computing some useful constants

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|January 4, 2013

This first SAS tip of 2013 comes from the illustrious Ron Cody and his bestselling book Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer’s Guide. I hope you’ll find this excerpt helpful- as well as all of our future weekly tips on this blog. Here’s to a great year! The following excerpt is from SAS Press [...]

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SAS author's tip: General items to watch for when transferring data

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|November 30, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from Carol Matthews and Brian Shilling’s book Validating Clinical Trial Data Reporting with SAS. Written for SAS programmers, this engaging guide contains many hands-on tips–including the featured excerpt below. The following excerpt is from SAS Press authors Carol Matthews and Brian Shilling’s book “Validating Clinical Trial Data Reporting with SAS” [...]

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SAS author's tip: Combining tables using SAS Enterprise Guide

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|November 20, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from Susan Slaughter and Lora Delwiche’s bestselling The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.2. Susan and Lora are revered in the user community. And their work continues to help SAS users throughout the world. I hope you’ll also find value in this week’s excerpt. The following excerpt is from [...]

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SAS author's tip: The basics of decision trees

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|November 8, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from Barry de Ville and his book Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining: Using SAS Enterprise Miner.  Barry is a technical and analytical consultant at SAS. To learn more about Barry and his forthcoming new edition of the book, following this week’s excerpt, visit his author [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using informats to filter invalid values

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|November 2, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his book Cody’s Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition. Ron is the popular author of several bestselling SAS books and has been a SAS user since 1977. Visit Ron’s author page for lots of bonus content, including a free chapter from his [...]

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SAS author's tip: Selecting a simple random sample

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|October 18, 2012

This week’s SAS tip is from A. John Bailer and his book Statistical Programming in SAS. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, John has been using SAS for 30 years. His expertise clearly comes through in his book. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author John Bailer and his book “Statistical Programming in SAS” [...]

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