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Creating SAS variables using various methods in SAS

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Working with SAS Datasets. How to Create SAS Variables. Objectives of this Chapter:. Learn about SAS Variables. Learn how to LABEL, RENAME and FORMAT data. Learn SAS commonly used functions for data processing. Learn how to MERGE datasets. Learn conditional processing using WHERE, IF/ELSE and DO-END. Declaration, assignment, length, keep, drop, array, PROC contents, label, macro variables and scope of variables. To simplify, each and every field/column in a SAS dataset is a SAS variable. How to decide le...

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Base SAS certified programmer - practice questions and examples

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SAS certified programmer - questions. Is full of information about SAS certification, advantageous of certification and training programs. This page is not to reproduce any of them but to share some of the sample questions and practice examples I developed while training a team for SAS certification. The information is relevant only for Base SAS programmer certification. I recommend little SAS book. As a reference book for Base SAS certification preparation. Input id $6. name $20. @30 locale $10. Though ...

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SAS Language in Nut-shell

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To use SAS it is necessary that you are acquainted with the scripting known as SAS language. SAS programs are written using SAS language to manipulate, clean, describe and to do data analysis. A SAS program consists of a series of DATA, data transformation and PROCedure statements. An entry level SAS user should at least know how to use the following SAS statements to have a good start with the language. IF / THEN; ELSE;.

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a beginner's free guide to SAS System for Consumer FinanceAnalysts

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Managing a Consumer Lending Business. Welcome to S for SAS. Is one language everyone understands in consumer lending analytics! That explains why an analyst should learn it for an effective communication. This free guide is an effort to equip a beginner analyst with basic SAS skills, in a week’s. Target audience is expected to have basic computer skills like working with a spreadsheet. And should know how to edit a program in a PC based SAS System. No statistics or programming background is expected.

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a beginner's guide to SAS System for Consumer Finance CreditCard Analyst

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The SAS-L Discussion group is a forum for people who want to use or explore the capabilities of SAS System. SAS-Lis an unmoderated Internet Mail List. How Many People use SAS-L? Shoot a question . you have several answers in couple of hours . More than 10000 users from 43 countries. How many messages a day? 25-50 messages , solving problems and asking questions. You can also subscribe to a digest to reduce the number of mails. What is talked about? Can i access all information without subscribing?

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Writing Macros in SAS

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Writing a SAS Macro. The SAS macro language helps to reduce the amount of repetitive SAS code and it facilitates passing information from one procedure to another procedure. Furthermore, we can use it to write SAS programs that are "dynamic" and flexible. Generally, we can consider macro language to be composed of macro variables and macro programs. In this chapter will demonstrate how to create macro variables and how to write basic macro programs. Now let us look at some examples:. Data =account perf;.

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Getting Data into SAS System

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Getting Data in to SAS. Objective of this Chapter. To learn data sources and methods to read data into SAS. To learn how to use INPUT, INFILE, PROC IMPORT and PROC SQL for reading data. SAS understands only SAS datasets and formats so its important to convert all kinds of data into a form which SAS understands. The data so converted are called SAS datasets. This chapter explains various ways SAS reads data to make SAS DATASETS. Reading Data Instreams and External Files using INPUT. Suppose you are workin...

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a beginner's guide to SAS System for Consumer Finance CreditCard Analyst

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A Simple Program Explained. Objective of this chapter:. To create a simple SAS program in PC SAS System and understand the basic program constructs. Specifically :. Learn to use the DATA statement. Learn to use the INPUT statement. Learn to use the CARDS statement. Learn where to use the semicolon (;). Learn to use two Procedures – PRINT and FREQ. How to create a permanent dataset using LIBNAME. Learn how to execute a SAS program. Data sample accounts;. INPUT Account 1-7 StatusCode $ 9 CreditLimit 11-14 ;.

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Content of S4SAS website and the SAS primer - free guide

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Consumer Lending Analytics and SAS. Scope of Analytics in Consumer Lending. Introduction to SAS System. SAS Language in Nutshell. First Steps with Data and SAS. Data Value, Variable, Observations, and Dataset. Rules for SAS names. Rules for SAS statements. A Simple Program Explained. Reading Data Instreams and External Files using INPUT. Reading data using PROC IMPORT. Data Extraction using PROC SQL. Reading EBCDIC files using SAS. Creating variables with INPUT Statement. SAS Functions in DATA steps.