Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition - Softcover

Cody, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599946599 ISBN 13: 9781599946597

Publisher: SAS Institute, 2015

Synopsis

Thoroughly updated for SAS 9, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition, addresses tasks that nearly every SAS programmer needs to do - that is, make sure that data errors are located and corrected. Written in Ron Cody's signature informal, tutorial style, this book develops and demonstrates data cleaning programs and macros that you can use as written or modify for your own special data cleaning needs. Each topic is developed through specific examples, and every program and macro is explained in detail.

About this title

About the Author

Ron Cody, EdD, a retired professor from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School now works as a private consultant and a national instructor for SAS Institute Inc. A SAS user since 1977, Ron's extensive knowledge and innovative style have

Review

"Clean data is critical to accurate analysis. By implementing programs and macros in Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Second Edition, you can achieve the goal of a clean SAS data set. Easy-to-follow examples identify invalid, missing, or out-of-range data. Also included are chapters working with dates and matching Primary Key (Identifier) variables across multiple files. This Second Edition incorporates new features in SAS9.

This book is a valuable tool for all SAS users to prepare data for analysis." --Karol Katz, MS, Programmer/Analyst, Yale University School of Medicine

"Many veteran coders become comfortable - sometimes too comfortable - with the coding techniques that they learned early on in their careers. They believe that there is no need to adopt enhanced features since their old skills continue to provide an adequate return. Dr. Ron Cody is NOT one of those people; his published works on SAS embrace the changes that have occurred in the SAS language over the years. Some of his books, most notably SAS Functions by Example and Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide, are benchmarks by which other books should be measured. He's now taken one of his earlier works, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software and updated it to take advantage of what SAS has introduced in the 9 years since the original version was published.

Folks who purchased his original volume should be prepared to put their first copy away and begin to use the newer work at their earliest opportunity." --Andrew T. Kuligowski, SouthEast SAS Users Group

"Many veteran coders become comfortable - sometimes too comfortable - with the coding techniques that they learned early on in their careers. They believe that there is no need to adopt enhanced features since their old skills continue to provide an adequate return. Dr. Ron Cody is NOT one of those people; his published works on SAS embrace the changes that have occurred in the SAS language over the years. Some of his books, most notably SAS Functions by Example and Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide, are benchmarks by which other books should be measured. He's now taken one of his earlier works, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS Software and updated it to take advantage of what SAS has introduced in the 9 years since the original version was published.

Folks who purchased his original volume should be prepared to put their first copy away and begin to use the newer work at their earliest opportunity." --Andrew T. Kuligowski, SouthEast SAS Users Group

Edition details

• Publisher: SAS Institute
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1599946599
• ISBN 13: 9781599946597
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 268