Chapter 6 Part 1 SAS ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TOPICS PART 1: Preparing Data for Analysis, SAS Essentials

Chapter 6 Part 1 SAS ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TOPICS PART 1: Preparing Data for Analysis, SAS Essentials, Alan Elliott LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Using SAS Functions • Using PROC TRANSPOSE • Recoding data with the SELECT staetment • Using SAS programming techniques to clean up a messy dataset The SAS programming language is extensive and flexible, and there are many features of the language that were not discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The next two chapters are included for those who want to go deeper into SAS programming. This chapter introduces several topics that are commonly used in preparing data for analysis not covered in previous chapters. Additional programming topics including arrays and macros are covered in Chapter 7.