SAS Certification Prep Guide, 3rd Edition

New and experienced SAS users who want to prepare for the Base Programming for SAS 9 exam will find the SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9 to be an invaluable, convenient, and comprehensive resource that covers all of the objectives tested on the exam. Major topics include importing and exporting raw data files, creating and modifying SAS data sets, and identifying and correcting data syntax and programming logic errors. You will also become familiar with the enhancements and new functionality that are available in SAS 9.

Each chapter includes a quiz on the chapter’s contents.
This guide provides you with a solid study resource as well as a go-to reference for your library.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Base Programming
Chapter 2 Referencing Files and Setting Options
Chapter 3 Editing and Debugging SAS Programs
Chapter 4 Creating List Reports
Chapter 5 Creating SAS Data Sets from External Files
Chapter 6 Understanding DATA Step Processing
Chapter 7 Creating and Applying User-Defined Formats
Chapter 8 Producing Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 9 Producing HTML Output
Chapter 10 Creating and Managing Variables
Chapter 11 Reading SAS Data Sets
Chapter 12 Combining SAS Data Sets
Chapter 13 Transforming Data with SAS Functions
Chapter 14 Generating Data with DO Loops
Chapter 15 Processing Variables with Arrays
Chapter 16 Reading Raw Data in Fixed Fields
Chapter 17 Reading Free-Format Data
Chapter 18 Reading Date and Time Values
Chapter 19 Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Records
Chapter 20 Creating Multiple Observations from a Single Record
Chapter 21 Reading Hierarchical Files
Appendix 1 Quiz Answer Keys