1 A Brief Introduction to SAS
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Microsoft Windows User Interface
1.2.1 The Editor Window
1.2.2 The Log and Output Windows
1.2.3 Other Menus
1.3 The SAS Language
1.3.1 All SAS Statements Must End with a Semicolon
1.3.2 Program Steps
1.3.3 Variable Names and Data Set Names
1.3.4 Variable Lists
1.4 The Data Step
1.4.1 Creating SAS Data Sets from Raw Data
1.4.2 The Data Statement
1.4.3 The Infile Statement
1.4.4 The Input Statement
1.4.5 Reading Data from an Existing SAS Data Set
1.4.6 Storing SAS Data Sets on Disk
1.5 Modifying SAS Data
1.5.1 Creating and Modifying Variables
1.5.2 Deleting Variables
1.5.3 Deleting Observations
1.5.4 Subsetting Data Sets
1.5.5 Concatenating and Merging Data Sets
1.5.6 Merging Data Sets: Adding Variables
1.5.7 The Operation of the Data Step
1.6 The
proc
Step
1.6.1 The
proc
Statement
1.6.2 The
var
Statement