"Edition history: John Wiley & Sons (2e, 2015)"-- title page verso

"Presenting a straightforward introduction from the ground up, SAS® Essentials: Mastering SAS for Data Analytics, Third Edition illustrates SAS using hands-on learning techniques and numerous real-world examples. Keeping different experience levels in mind, the highly-qualified author team has developed the book over 25 years of teaching introductory SAS courses. This book provides an introduction to data manipulation, statistical techniques, and the SAS programming language. It features self-contained chapters to enhance the learning process and includes programming approaches for the latest version of the SAS platform. This Third Edition has been updated with expanded examples, a new programming chapter that introduces PROC SQL, and all new sections on online data acquisition, character functions, variable manipulation, and merging, appending, and updating files. This Third Edition includes a companion website with data sets, additional code, notes on SAS programming, functions, ODS, PROC SQL, and SAS Arrays, along with solutions for instructors. SAS® Essentials, Third Edition is a fundamental study resource for professionals preparing for the SAS Base Certification Exam, as well as an ideal textbook for courses in statistics, data analytics, applied SAS programming, and statistical computer applications"--