In reply to Karl Cheng.

The SAS/IML Studio User's Guide focusses on the point-and-click aspects of SAS/IML Studio. It has examples and screen shots of exploring and analyzing data by using the dynamically linked graphics and the 20 statistical analyses that appear on the SAS/IML Studio menu. The User's Guide does not deal with writing programs.

In contrast, Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software is a book about programming. The first four chapters teach you how to program data analyses with the SAS/IML language, whether in SAS/IML Studio or PROC IML. Chapters 5-10 teach you how to program the SAS/IML Studio graphics and data objects so that you can create interactive analyses. Later chapters deal with programming tasks such as calling SAS procedures, calling R packages, creating regression diagnostics, simulation, and bootstrapping.