Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them

Ron Cody

SAS Institute, Oct 12, 2012 - Computers - 162 pages

Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them presents often-used programming tasks that readers can either use as presented or modify to fit their own programs, all in one handy volume. Esteemed author and SAS expert Ron Cody covers such topics as character to numeric conversion, automatic detection of numeric errors, combining summary data with detail data, restructuring a data set, grouping values using several innovative methods, performing an operation on all character or all numeric variables in a SAS data set, and much more! SAS users of all levels interested in improving their programming skills will benefit from this easy-to-follow collection of tasks.

This book is part of the SAS Press program.

About the author

Ron Cody, Ed.D., is a retired professor from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School who now works as a private consultant and a national instructor for SAS. A SAS user since 1977, Ron's extensive knowledge and innovative style have made him a popular presenter at local, regional, and national SAS conferences. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, such asLearning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide; SAS Programming by Example; Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language, Fifth Edition; The SAS Workbook; The SAS Workbook Solutions; Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition; Longitudinal Data and SAS: A Programmer's Guide; and SAS Functions by Example, Second Edition, as well as countless articles in medical and scientific journals.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them; ITPro collection
• Author: Ron Cody
• Publisher: SAS Institute, 2012
• ISBN: 1612904394, 9781612904399
• Length: 162 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Mathematical & Statistical Software; Computers / Programming / General