Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language

I really enjoyed this textbook, so much that I am deciding to keep it for whenever I need SAS help. The exercises the book provides are very similar to the ones the authors went through in the chapters. Examples give a good breakdown of the code and output resulting from it. However, I did come across a couple problems where the answers in the back of the book were slightly incorrect (at most only one line of code was wrong or simply the line of code was not needed).

Good book, used in school for SAS class. Starts easy but progresses into very dry and complicated language. Good for school, probably wouldn't be good to study in your own. Rental was coming apart when I got it, so had to glue it back, so condition-wise I would put as bad

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.

Great book and price

Anyone who must use SAS for statistical analysis should use this book in their learning process. Yes, there is "The Little SAS Book" and its variatons, but Cody and Smith have written the best text for quickly learning how to use SAS for statistical analysis. Sometimes, academic authors write for their associates rather than students. These authors have one goal: to help anyone, at any level, learn how to apply SAS for their statistical analyses. Their writing is clear, and anyone with an 8th grade education can use their text. I've used R, Stata, SPSS, and Matlab for statistical analysis. This text is among the best statistical references and learning tools for anyone who must quickly learn SAS.

This is the book required for my SAS class but we don't use it too often. It's pretty much a textbook. When I try to read it and use it, it seems to be a good book. Easy to carry around. I still haven't been able to connect too much of it to my class assignments, just parts of it here and there are relevant to my classwork. Could be more useful for others.

This book is fantastic. It is very well written with lots of examples and screenshots of the coding.I used this book for an online SAS class and after a couple of weeks I was skipping the video lectures and just reading this book. The book is easy to understand and comprehensive.I highly recommend it for anyone trying to learn SAS.

Great book for applying basics of SAS programming to actual statistical analyses. Tons of examples. THis book requires some knowledge of basic SAS programming and basic statistics.

Well organised and application oriented introduction to SAS. The many exercises help to develop programming experience.

not bad