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The Little SAS Book : A Primer, Second Edition
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Author: Lora D. Delwiche, Susan J. Slaughter
List Price: $30.95
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ISBN: 1580252397
Publisher: SAS Publishing (10 November, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 4,780
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
I love this book so much that I would ...
I see that *The Little SAS Book* is now in its 3rd edition. My experiences were with the 2nd edition. I used that version of the book a few years ago when I was doing intensive work with SAS.This book was a life saver. I agree with the positive reviewers and disagree with the negative ones. Yes this book covers the basics - but that is EXACTLY why the book was written! Take it from me, even though I used SAS for sophisticated data analysis (mostly financial econometrics) and regularly used more advanced features of SAS and higher level books and manuals, I still OFTEN referred to *The Little SAS Book* during my SAS programming days. With all due respect to its competitors (Cody's books, etc.), I found *The Little SAS Book* to be the most useful and the most often used. I regularly recommended this book to those who were new to SAS and they always appreciated my recommendation. I can go on gushing about how great this book is, but to sum up in an efficient manner how much I love this book, let me leave you with the following: If either Lora or Susan (the authors of the book) were ever looking for a husband, I would marry either of them in a heartbeat!
Rating: 3 out of 5
For absolute beginners
I own almost every introductory book on SAS in print, and this one is used the least. The most use it gets is when someone who has absolutely no experience with SAS comes to me for help - then I can loan this book. It is very easy to read and assumes no knowledge of SAS. It has a few tips that are hard to find in other books at this level, but otherwise falls short. What you will find here is a tutorial on the basics of the SAS/Base package, how to read in data, and a few basic procedures. It covers this material well, but it is not enough unless you are taking a course and have another resource such as lecture notes to do anything really useful. It does not really cover SAS/Stat. I have used the book as the text in a course I taught, as supplementary to my lecture notes. If I taught the same course again, I would choose a different book, such as Cody. The Little SAS Book is a nice book to get started, but will not be the only book you need.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Book
I loved this book as this helped me to learn all the fundamentals.
Great book with clear examples.
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