The Little SAS Book: A Primer

A classic that just keeps getting better, The Little SAS Book is essential for anyone learning SAS programming. Lora Delwiche and Susan Slaughter offer a user-friendly approach so readers can quickly and easily learn the most commonly used features of the SAS language. Each topic is presented in a self-contained, two-page layout complete with examples and graphics. The fifth edition has been completely updated to reflect the new default output introduced with SAS 9.3. In addition, there is a now a full chapter devoted to ODS Graphics including the SGPLOT and SGPANEL procedures. Other changes include expanded coverage of linguistic sorting and a new section on concatenating macro variables with other text. This title belongs on every SAS programmer?s bookshelf. It?s a resource not just to get you started, but one you?ll return to as you continue to improve your programming skills.SAS Products and Releases: Base SAS: 9.3 Operating Systems: All

Lora D. Delwiche

Lora D. Delwiche is an applications software consultant with

Information Technology at the University of California at Davis.

With over 13 years experience using the SAS System, Lora acts

as a SAS site representative and teaches classes on the SAS

language. Her experiences teaching SAS to users from many

different disciplines prompted her to write a book proving that

the SAS System is "not hard to learn."

Susan J. Slaughter

Susan J. Slaughter, an independent computing consultant,

"got hooked" on SAS in graduate school over 13 years ago.

Since then she has used SAS for a variety of business and

academic tasks: managing large databases, teaching SAS software

classes, and writing articles about the SAS System. Her

experiences prompted her to write a book that would be both

informative and fun to read.