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Elementary Statistics Using SAS
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Elementary Statistics Using SAS

by Sandra D. Schlotzhauer
May 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 17m
English
SAS Institute
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Chapter 3 Importing Data

Your first step in using SAS to summarize and analyze data is to create a SAS data set. If your data is available electronically, SAS can almost certainly import it.

SAS provides many features for reading external data files, some of which differ based on your operating system. This chapter discusses a few basic features. If your data cannot be imported using the techniques in this chapter, then see SAS documentation or other references for more information. (See Appendix 1, “Further Reading,” for suggestions.)

If your data is in an electronic form, it’s worth the extra time to investigate ways to import it, instead of entering the data all over again. Importing data improves the overall data quality because quality ...

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