SAS®FOR DUMmIES


Contents at a Glance
Introduction .................................................................1
Part I: Welcome to SAS!................................................7
Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World of SAS ............................................................9
Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide..............................19
Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS..............................47
Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information ......79
Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!................................................................81
Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?....................................................................99
Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute................................................129
Chapter 7: You Want Fries with That Graph?..............................................................151
Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your
SAS Business Intelligence .........................................169
Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics ........................................................171
Chapter 9: More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain..............................................185
Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output ............................................199
Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your
SAS Masterpieces .....................................................217
Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate............................219
Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Co-workers........................................................243
Chapter 13: Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS ..................................................261
Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered................................................283
Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll...............297
Chapter 15: Setting It All Up..........................................................................................299
Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast..............................................................................313
Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old:
Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide ..................................................................321
Part VI: The Part of Tens ...........................................335
Chapter 18: Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips .........................................337
Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators.....................................................................343
Chapter 20: Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information ...........................353
Index .......................................................................357