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As other reviewers I agree on the fact that the book has the wrong title and I didn't read the reviews before buying it. It was helpful though in understanding some terms of SAS language and seems to be very useful for graphic output.
This is the only book in the.for Dummies series that I have not liked. I have loaned it out to several other graduate students and none of them have failed to return it within minutes of borrowing it. I have taken 5 or 6 advanced statistics course over the years and found this book to be helpful with very few topics. There is little real world explainations and the SAS code explanations are poor. A good book is usually gone until you go get it back from them. I am just waiting to have someone buy it from me online so I can get something useful out of it.
Bought this book for a new job that didn't happen. You'll probably see itllisted soon.
Somewhere on the cover or in Amazon's description of this book, there should be a big, red, warning label making sure that you are aware that really this is SAS (Windows) for Dummies. I purchased this book based on the title and the description provided by Amazon, although I have no clue where they got it. I guess, in my case, the dummies part was pretty descriptive. However, while I was looking for a book that described SAS, the language, this book describes SAS, the Windows interface. There is nothing in this book about the actual SAS language, so if that is what you're looking for, like I was, then steer clear of this. I also will never, ever, buy another "for Dummies" book. There is $30 + shipping and handling down the drain.
SAS for Dummies was great. It provided the information to jump-in and get started. But it should be called SAS Enterprise for Dummies as much of the book is dedicated to using SAS Enterprise rather than Base SAS.
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