Part II: Learning How to Write Your Own SAS Programs

Chapter 7 An Introduction to SAS Programming

Chapter 8 Reading Data from External Files

Chapter 9 Reading and Writing SAS Data Sets

Chapter 10 Creating Formats and Labels

Chapter 11 Performing Conditional Processing

Chapter 12 Performing Iterative Processing: Looping

Chapter 13 Working with SAS Dates

Chapter 14 Subsetting and Combining SAS Data Sets

Chapter 15 Describing SAS Functions

Chapter 16 Working with Multiple Observations per Subject

Chapter 17 Describing Arrays

Chapter 18 Displaying Your Data

Chapter 19 Summarizing Your Data with SAS Procedures

Chapter 20 Computing Frequencies

Part II shows you how to write your own SAS programs and use SAS procedures to perform a variety of tasks. This section also explains how to read data from a variety of sources, including text files, Excel workbooks, and CSV files. In order to help you become familiar with the SAS Studio environment, the book also shows you how to access the dozens of interesting data sets that are included with the product.