SAS for Dummies (ISBN - 0471788325)

403 Pages·2021·16.11 MB·English

by Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger

SAS

®

FOR

DUMmIES

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SAS

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FOR

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by Stephen McDaniel and Chris Hemedinger

SAS

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FOR

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SAS® For Dummies®

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Copyright © 2007 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

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About the Authors

Stephen McDaniel works at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, and is the Senior
Manager of User Empowerment–Business Intelligence and Analytics. He is a
strategic advisor and mentor for the business units in Yahoo! Search Marketing,
helping business users to harness the potential of their data assets for plan-
ning and decision-making. As a member of Strategic Data Systems, he works
closely with the data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic teams
on behalf of the business units to provide user-centric vision and guidance to
their efforts. You can reach him at www.stephenmcdaniel.us. Previously,
Stephen was the senior manager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide and
the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office development teams at SAS. Stephen has
been a SAS user for more than 17 years and has experience at over 50 compa-
nies as a statistician, statistical programmer, product manager, and manager
of data warehousing and business intelligence.

Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in the Business Intelligence
Clients division at SAS. Chris began his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical
writer, creating such hits as SAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment
(remember OS/2?) and SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment.
In 1997, he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easier to use
for non-programmers, and that project evolved into the hugely popular SAS
Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris has worked with ever since.

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Dedications

Stephen McDaniel: I want to thank my wonderful wife Eileen for her love,
patience, support, help, reviews, and encouragement throughout the writing
process!

Chris Hemedinger: For my beautiful wife Gail: for her patience and for our
three daughters (even though they would never tolerate my chapters as
acceptable bedtime-story material, despite my coaxing).

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