Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This textbook provides an introduction to SAS Programming for elementary statistical methods. It does not require any previous experience of SAS, but the reader is assumed to have a basic understanding of statistics. It covers the basics of programming, including creation of datasets in SAS, debugging a program, and the overall construction of a SAS program. It covers all DATA Step operations, t-tests, confidence intervals, simple linear regression, and ANOVA. The book is full of examples and computer-based exercises, and has been developed from the vast experience of the author teaching from the material over many years"-- Provided by publisher.