Quick Results with the Output Delivery System (Gupta,Quick Results with the Output Delivery System) - Softcover

Gupta, Sunil K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590471636 ISBN 13: 9781590471630

Publisher: Sas Inst, 2003

Synopsis

Improve the appearance of your SAS output today! Learn the basic concepts of the Output Delivery System (ODS) and apply ODS features to your SAS output quickly and effectively. This book discusses issues associated with defining and selecting output destinations, selecting output objects, and creating customized output files. By using the step-by-step examples provided throughout the book, you will learn the benefits of ODS, and you will see immediate results in the output you produce. This book addresses the following topics: understanding the structure of ODS statements, generating ODS reports, routing output from several SAS procedures, manipulating ODS objects, writing to the ODS OUTPUT destination, working with ODS destinations and objects, and enhancing reports with ODS styles.

About this title

About the Author

Sunil has written and presented numerous papers about ODS at the local, regional, and international SAS users group conferences, including an invited paper for SUGI27 and SUGI26 titled "Using Styles and Templates to Customize SAS ODS Output." He presented another invited paper about ODS in the Beginners Tutorial section of SUGI27. Sunil developed and taught "Customized Reports with SAS Output Delivery System" at the regional Western Users of SAS Software conference and at several large corporations.

Sunil has been working with ODS since it was introduced. His experience includes projects that use ODS for RTF file generation with SAS applications such as a case report form tracking information system, which is essential for clinical data compliance.

Review

This book is clear and easy to understand. Topics are covered in surprising depth, enabling readers to produce results simply. -- Susan J. Slaughter Avocet Solutions

This excellent introductory text is extremely helpful in understanding how to get SAS® to produce reports within the ODS framework. -- William Hewitt, Ph.D. Senior Project Analyst, Fleet Credit Card Services, a subsidiary of FleetBoston Financial Adjunct Professor, West Chester University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sas Inst
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1590471636
• ISBN 13: 9781590471630
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120