Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language

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Customer Reviews:

Poor book [Posted on 2007-03-20]
I hoped more. It is a very basic book, with elemental examples and no clear directions on the best use of SAS.

Useful [Posted on 2007-11-25]
Really good for a start for SAS. You can always turn to it when there is something you do not understand. Thought it is thick.Well, the software is complicated. So enjoy reading it!

guide to applied stats through the use of SAS [Posted on 2008-02-13]
SAS is a data management and statistical analysis tool that is extremely popular in industry especially in medical device and pharmaceutical companies. SAS manuals are very good at providing users who have some statistical knowledge with guidance toward the use of various porcedures. Statistical texts often provide users of statistical methods with the necessary basic knowledge. However there are few texts that do both. A trend is developing to introduce basic and advanced statistical methods illustrated through the use of statistical software (particularly SAS). This book does a great job of presenting many applied problems and demonstrating the implementation of the analysis in SAS.

Disappointed [Posted on 2008-03-26]
I am disappointed after reading this book. The coverage on statistics is overly superficial. I would be quite hesitating to call it a book on "applied statistics". It's probably better called "Basic Data Analysis Using SAS".

It's a book for users with no experience of either statistics or SAS. It's clearly written. However, the style is old fashioned (the same is for SAS). In recent years, SAS has shifted its focus on so called "enterprise solutions"; therefore the development on data management, statistics, and econometrics has lagged behind, compared to SPlus/R and other more specialized programs.

Similar to most other SAS books, the authors spent a lot of time talking about SAS programming rather than the subject matters (mostly because SAS syntax is very old and different from most other programming languages). The author also spent a lot of efforts talking about data input assuming users are still living in a stone age and have to deal with punched cards instead of delimited data.

Easy to understand, fun to read [Posted on 2008-06-05]
My prof uses this book as a required text. I am not familiar with SAS but after reading a couple of chapter, this book is really easy to understand. The authors also make it fun to read! Definitely recommend this book, even for the first SAS user.

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