Data Management Essentials Using SAS and JMP

This hands-on, no-frills tutorial guide equips new and infrequent users with the SAS skills which are essential to data management.

Julie Kezik (Author), Melissa Hill (Author)

9781107114562, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 June 2016

150 pages, 74 b/w illus. 4 tables 31 exercises
24.2 x 18.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.42 kg

'The authors of Data Management Essentials Using SAS and JMP have written a thoroughly user-friendly beginning guide to SAS programming for data exploration and management, and for designing well-constructed and informative reports. I honestly know of no better book to use for self-instruction on, or for teaching essential SAS programming skills for report design than this very well written and produced book.' Joseph M. Hilbe, Arizona State University

SAS programming is a creative and iterative process designed to empower you to make the most of your organization's data. This friendly guide provides you with a repertoire of essential SAS tools for data management, whether you are a new or an infrequent user. Most useful to students and programmers with little or no SAS experience, it takes a no-frills, hands-on tutorial approach to getting started with the software. You will find immediate guidance in navigating, exploring, visualizing, cleaning, formatting, and reporting on data using SAS and JMP. Step-by-step demonstrations, screenshots, handy tips, and practical exercises with solutions equip you to explore, interpret, process and summarize data independently, efficiently and effectively.

1. Navigation
2. Preliminary data exploration
3. Storing and manipulating data
4. Advanced concepts in dataset and variable manipulation
5. Introduction to common procedures
6. Procedures for simple statistics
7. More about common procedures
8. Data visualization
9. JMP as an alternative.

Subject Areas: Mathematical & statistical software [UFM], Probability & statistics [PBT], Epidemiology & medical statistics [MBNS]