SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, 4th 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. Now in its fourth addition, the guide has been extensively updated and revised to streamline explanations.

The chapter quizzes have been thoroughly updated and full solutions are included at the back of the book.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Setting Up Practice Data
Chapter 2. Basic Concepts
Chapter 3. Setting Up Your SAS Session
Chapter 4. Identifying and Correcting Errors
Chapter 5. Creating List Reports
Chapter 6. Creating SAS Data Sets from External Files
Chapter 7. Understanding DATA Step Processing
Chapter 8. Creating and Applying User-Defined Formats
Chapter 9. Producing Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 10. Creating Output with ODS
Chapter 11. Creating and Managing Variables
Chapter 12. Reading SAS Data Sets
Chapter 13. Combining SAS Data Sets
Chapter 14. Using Functions to Manipulate Data
Chapter 15. Processing Data with DO Loops
Chapter 16. Processing Data with Arrays
Chapter 17. Reading Raw Data in Fixed Fields
Chapter 18. Reading and Creating Raw Data in Free-Format
Chapter 19. SAS Date and Time Values
Chapter 20. Creating a Single Observation from Multiple Raw Data Records
Chapter 21. Creating Multiple Observations from a Single Raw Data Record
Chapter 22. Conditioning Raw Data Files
Appendix: Quiz Answer Keys