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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

By : Harish Gulati
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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis

By: Harish Gulati

Overview of this book

SAS is one of the leading enterprise tools in the world today when it comes to data management and analysis. It enables the fast and easy processing of data and helps you gain valuable business insights for effective decision-making. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide that will prepare you for the SAS certification exam. After a quick overview of the SAS architecture and components, the book will take you through the different approaches to importing and reading data from different sources using SAS. You will then cover SAS Base and 4GL, understanding data management and analysis, along with exploring SAS functions for data manipulation and transformation. Next, you'll discover SQL procedures and get up to speed on creating and validating queries. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn all about data visualization, right from creating bar charts and sample geographic maps through to assigning patterns and formats. In addition to this, the book will focus on macro programming and its advanced aspects. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in SAS programming and have the skills you need to easily handle and manage your data-related problems in SAS.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: SAS Basics
4
Section 2: Merging, Optimizing, and Descriptive Statistics
7
Section 3: Advanced Programming
10
Section 4: SQL in SAS
13
Section 5: Data Visualization and Reporting

MCOMPILENOTE

The MCOMPILENOTE option issues a note to the LOG with details about the size and number of instructions on completion of the compilation of a macro. NOTE confirms that the compilation of the macro was completed. When the option is on and NOTE is issued, the compiled version of the macro is available for execution. A macro can successfully compile, but will still contain errors or warnings that will cause the macro to not execute as you intended.

The syntax is as follows:

MCOMPILENOTE=<NONE | NOAUTOCALL | ALL>

NONE prevents any NOTE from being written to the log.

NOAUTOCALL prevents any NOTE from being written to the log for AUTOCALL macros but does issue a NOTE to the log upon completion of the compilation of any other macro.

ALL issues an X to the log. The note contains the size and number of instructions upon the completion of the compilation of any macro...