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

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Tasks Involving Conversion: Character to Numeric, Specific Values to Missing, and Changing Case
Chapter 2: Grouping Data
Chapter 3: Summarizing Data
Chapter 4: Combining and Updating SAS Data Sets
Chapter 5: Creating Formats from SAS Data Sets
Chapter 6: Table Lookup Techniques
Chapter 7: Restructuring (Transposing) SAS Data Sets
Chapter 8: Tasks Involving Dates
Chapter 9: Data Cleaning Tasks
Chapter 10: Reading Data with User-Defined INFORMATS
Chapter 11: Tasks Involving Multiple Observations per Subject
Chapter 12: Miscellaneous Tasks