Mastering SAS Programming: Become an expert in analytics techniques using SAS

Key benefits

• Master SQL procedures such as combining datasets, different join types, and select Statements, and understand the need for macro variables
• Learn about statistics and data analytics techniques using SAS Data Science tools
• Apply advanced statistical concepts such as clustering, linear regression, and decision trees to solve real-world business problems

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Who is this book for?

What you will learn

• Gain an understanding of basic SAS, its GUI, libraries, and importing/exporting data
• Use PROC SQL to fetch data from multiple tables by using JOINS
• Explore the power of SAS macros and optimize code and for faster data manipulation
• Gain an in-depth understanding of statistics in SAS to summarize and graph data and also draw inferences from it
• Perform cluster analysis on a dataset by applying K-means clustering to understand the purpose of unsupervised Machine Learning in SAS
• Build a decision-tree model to visually and explicitly represent decisions and decision making
• Apply linear or logistic regression in SAS and build models for predictive analytics on sales data
• Build a time series model to see patterns in data
• Use ARIMA modeling to build a model and make forecasts