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In case you missed the news, there is a new edition of The Little SAS Book! Last fall, we completed the sixth edition of our book, and even though it is actually a few pages shorter than the fifth edition, we managed to add many more topics to the book. See if you can answer this question.
The answer is D – all of the above! We also added new sections on subsetting, summarizing, and creating macro variables using PROC SQL, new sections on the XLSX LIBNAME engine and ODS EXCEL, more on iterative DO statements, a new section on %DO, and more. For a summary of all the changes, see our blog post “The Little SAS Book 6.0: The best-selling SAS book gets even better.”
Updating The Little SAS Book meant updating its companion book, Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book, as well. The exercises and projects book contains multiple choice and short answer questions as well as programming exercises that cover the same topics that are in The Little SAS Book. The exercises and projects book can be used in a classroom setting, or for anyone wanting to test their SAS knowledge and practice what they have learned.
Here are examples of the types of questions you might find in the exercises and projects book.
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Programming Exercise
Solutions
In the book, we provide solutions for odd-numbered multiple choice and short answer questions and hints for the programming exercises.
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- Hint: New variables (columns) can be specified in the SELECT clause. Also, see our blog post “Expand your SAS Knowledge by Learning PROC SQL.”
While we don’t provide solutions for even-numbered questions, we can tell you that the iterative DO statement is covered in Section 3.12 of The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition, “Using Iterative DO, DO WHILE, and DO UNTIL Statements.” The %DO statement is covered in Section 7.7, “Using %DO Loops in Macros.”
For more information about these books, explore the following links to the SAS website:
The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition
Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition
Test your SAS skills with the newest edition of Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book was published on SAS Users.
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